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Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 3 April 2025UIN 42576

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 1260 on External by Default Recruitment, how many urgent exemptions to external by default recruitment were granted during the pre-election period.

Answered by Georgia Gould

Details of exemptions to External by Default recruitment are not held centrally.

It is the responsibility of all Ministerial departments, Non-Ministerial departments, Executive Agencies and Crown Non-Departmental Public Bodies to hold their own recruitment records including those relating to exemptions to External by Default.

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