Civil Servants: Career Development and Recruitment
The question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance he has issued on whether (a) an applicant's and (b) their parent's socio-economic background should be considered in (i) promotion and (ii) employment decisions in the Civil Service.
Answered by Georgia Gould
The socio-economic background of applicants or their parents does not form part of the promotion or employment decisions in the Civil Service.
All Civil Service Recruitment is governed by the Civil Service Recruitment Principles. They outline the legal requirement for selection for appointment to the Civil Service to be made on merit on the basis of fair and open competition.
The Civil Service Management Code outlines that Departments and agencies must ensure that all promotions and lateral transfers follow from a considered decision as to the fitness of individuals, on merit, to undertake the duties concerned.
The Civil Service approach to recruitment is anonymised by default to support the consideration of candidates for promotion and employment based on merit alone.
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