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Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment

Asked by John GlenConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 17 September 2024UIN 4645

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will instruct the (a) Cabinet Secretary and Head of Civil Service and (b) Civil Service Commission to make an assessment of the probity of appointments as civil servants without open and fair competition o

Answered by Georgia Gould

The Cabinet Secretary wrote to the Leader of the Opposition on 30th August 2024 addressing this issue and the use of Exceptions to the Recruitment Principles.

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