Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, 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 Wales Office is not an employer in its own right and most staff are employed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
I refer the hon Member to the reply given by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Prisons, Probation, Rehabilitation & Sentencing on 16 February 2017 (UIN 60212).