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Civil Service: Management

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 23 December 2025UIN 99826

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 26 November 2025 to Question 92016 on Civil Service: Management, for what reason the Terms of Reference are not subject to external publication.

Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds

The Corporate governance in central government departments: code of good practice (2017) does not require publication of board and committee Terms of Reference.

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