Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to table 14 of her Department's document entitled Civil Service Fast Stream: recruitment data 2026, published on 24 September 2026, if she will list the questions asked to determine whether an applicant's parent or guardian's previous occupation was classified as a routine and manual occupation.

The Summer Internship Programme makes use of the National Statistics Socio-economic classification (NS-SEC) methodology defined by the ONS to assess socioeconomic background. The questions used under this methodology are already published by the Social Mobility Commission on gov.uk.