Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether any internship schemes managed by (a) his Department and (b) each of its Arm’s Length Bodies are restricted to applicants on the basis of (i) ethnicity, (ii) social class and (iii) both.

The Northern Ireland Office does not place any restrictions to applicants on the basis of ethnicity, social class and/or both. The Northern Ireland Office has not recruited for any internship schemes in the last 12 months.