Question follow-through · 1261
Senior Civil Servants
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, to provide a breakdown by (a) department and (b) job title of senior civil service jobs (i) offered and (ii) appointed since 30 May 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 23 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 26 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 30 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
23 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, to provide a breakdown by (a) department and (b) job title of senior civil service jobs (i) offered and (ii) appointed since 30 May 2024.
26 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jul 2024
Answer published
The information held by the Cabinet Office relating to the Senior Civil Service shows there have been 43 offers made and 41 candidates posted/taken up duty since 30th May 2024. Recruitment data from some departments is collected on a biannual basis by the...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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