Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 28 July 2026, to Question 16155, on Intelligence Services: Summer Internship Programme, whether (a) white British and (b) middle class students, will be able to join a MI5, MI6 or SIS internship scheme in summer 2027.

The eligibility criteria for 2027 internship schemes in the United Kingdom Intelligence Community were or will be made publicly available on agency websites when the schemes are advertised.

We are striving wherever possible to ensure that people from backgrounds that are typically underrepresented in these industries are given opportunities they have previously been denied, so we make the most of all of our country’s brilliant talent.