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Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 18 February 2025UIN 30656

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2025 to Question 22196, on Senior Civil Service: Recruitment, for what reasons can these individuals not be identified.

Answered by Ms Abena Oppong-Asare

Under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), we are prohibited from providing information about individuals, or which can be used to identify individuals, to third parties without their express permission. By providing job titles, this could lead to individuals being identifiable. While the details regarding some Senior Civil Service appointment processes are made public, many are not.

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