Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of job roles advertised within his Department in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017 excluded the box under the Ban the Box initiative.

Core Defra was already compliant with the ‘Ban the Box’ initiative when it was adopted by the Civil Service in February 2016. Therefore, in both years a) 2016 and b) 2017, 100% of advertised jobs excluded the criminal record declaration box.