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<p>The Cabinet Office holds data on socio-economic background (SEB) in the following
ways: from applications to the Fast Stream graduate programme and the centrally run
accelerated development schemes, including the Future Leaders’ Scheme (FLS), the High
Potential Development Scheme (HPDS) and the Senior Leaders’ Scheme (SLS) and is piloting
other ways of gaining data, on a voluntary and anonymous basis, including from the
annual People Survey, in future years.</p><p> </p><p>The SEB measures are questions
which the Civil Service developed over two years to assess socio-economic background.</p><p>
</p><p>The Civil Service Fast Stream has been recording socioeconomic background data
of its applicants since 2011.</p><p> </p><p>The Civil Service Future Leaders Scheme
(FLS) and Senior Leaders Scheme (SLS) have been recording SEB data from its applicants
since 2016. The Civil Service High Potential Development Scheme have been recording
SEB data from its applicants since 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Individual departments may
have undertaken surveys of the socio-economic background of their employees, but this
is not held by the Cabinet Office.</p>
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