Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 74280
Civil Service: Unpaid Work
Tabled: 2 September 2025
Answered: 15 September 2025
Question
Mike Wood
Conservative — Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press release entitled Internship Scheme To Get More Working Class Students Into Civil Service, published on 1 August 2025, whether children of (a) NHS doctors and (b) NHS nur
Answer
Karin SmythThe Summer Internship Programme (SIP) is a Cabinet Office run scheme. The scheme places interns into Government departments. The Department of Health and Social Care participates in the scheme and is allocated interns from the Cabinet Office.