Government Departments: Equality

(asked on 20th May 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Mike Wood Portrait
Mike Wood
(Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2025 to Question 52340 on Government Departments: Equality, in which departments have decisions on EDI spending controls been delegated to their Permanent Secretary.

Answered by
Georgia Gould Portrait
Georgia Gould
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 29th May 2025

The following Departments have formally informed the Cabinet Office that their Minister has delegated the decision to approve external Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) expenditure to the Permanent Secretary:

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

  • HM Treasury

  • Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government

  • Department for Business and Trade

  • Cabinet Office

  • Home Office

  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport

  • Department for Transport

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