Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department operates a ban the box employment policy in respect of ex-offender job applicants with unspent convictions; and how many employees of his Department have unspent convictions.
The Department advertises vacancies on Civil Service Resourcing which centrally applies the Ban the Box Employment Policy for job applicants.
Information is not held on employees employed by the Department who have unspent convictions.