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Civil Service: Veterans

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Question for Cabinet Office

UIN 90934, tabled on 10 December 2021

Question

Stephanie Peacock
Labour
Barnsley East
Commons

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many veterans were employed by the Civil Service in (a) February 2020 and (ii) November 2021.

Answer

Leo Docherty
Conservative
Aldershot
Commons

Answered on

17 December 2021

I am committed to ensuring that veterans enter appropriate employment post service. The Great Place to Work for Veterans Scheme is an example of one of the initiatives we have brought in to support veteran employment. A successful trial phase ran in six departments for nine months.

1,524 veterans who applied through the scheme received an interview and 344 received a job offer.

Given this was just a trial phase rolled out in six early adopter departments, it is not appropriate to measure the proportion of jobs filled through the scheme across the whole Civil Service.

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