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882502

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date	13/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to paragraph 45 of the Government response to the First Report of the Justice Committee, Session 2017-19, HC 416, which Departments have reported on exemptions to the Ban the Box scheme in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	135564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The Civil Service chose to adopt the Ban the Box initiative in February 2016. The Cabinet Office issued guidance for departmental recruitment and HR teams to support departments to ensure their recruitment practices were in line with the Ban the Box initiative. For many organisations, the guidance formalised the good practice which already operated across the Civil Service. Departments have processes in place to approve exceptions. The Cabinet Office have not asked Departments to report on exceptions to the Ban the Box Scheme in the last 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 135565 question first answered 23/04/2018 10:38:55 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

882503

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Government's implementation plan is for banning the box on job applications.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	135565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The Civil Service chose to adopt the Ban the Box initiative in February 2016. The Cabinet Office issued guidance for departmental recruitment and HR teams to support departments to ensure their recruitment practices were in line with the Ban the Box initiative. For many organisations, the guidance formalised the good practice which already operated across the Civil Service. Departments have processes in place to approve exceptions. The Cabinet Office have not asked Departments to report on exceptions to the Ban the Box Scheme in the last 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 135564 question first answered 23/04/2018 10:38:55 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

882506

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of job roles advertised within his Department in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017 excluded the box under the Ban the Box initiative.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	135568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>No job roles advertised by the Cabinet Office during 2016 and 2017 were excluded from the ‘Ban the Box’ initiative.</p><p>The Cabinet Office embraces and encourages diversity across its workforce; therefore none of our job application forms either digitally or physically requires disclosure of criminal convictions, and therefore meets the requirements of ‘Ban the Box’.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 135607 question first answered 23/04/2018 10:27:50 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

882545

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his Department's implementation plan is for banning the box on job applications.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	135607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>No job roles advertised by the Cabinet Office during 2016 and 2017 were excluded from the ‘Ban the Box’ initiative.</p><p>The Cabinet Office embraces and encourages diversity across its workforce; therefore none of our job application forms either digitally or physically requires disclosure of criminal convictions, and therefore meets the requirements of ‘Ban the Box’.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 135568 question first answered 23/04/2018 10:27:50 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake