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Public Appointments

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 24 March 2025UIN 39582

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 24247 on Public Appointments, on how many occasions Ministers have rejected Advisory Assessment Panel advice and asked that a competition is re-run since 5 July 2024; and for which appointments.

Answered by Georgia Gould

The public appointments digital system, run by the Cabinet Office, enables departments to effectively and consistently manage their public appointment campaigns. It shows the current stage of a campaign and the outcome when completed. However, the system does not record if a campaign has been re-run, and where campaigns are re-run, the Cabinet Office does not collect the reasons for this. That would be a matter for individual sponsor departments and their ministers as part of the normal day-to-day management of the recruitment campaigns they run.

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