Northern Ireland Office: Recruitment

(asked on 20th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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.


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Kris Hopkins
This question was answered on 23rd February 2017

The Northern Ireland Office operates in line with Ministry of Justice recruitment policies and we are supportive of the Ban the Box initiative.

No employees in the Department currently have unspent convictions.

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