Question follow-through · 2936

Department of Health and Social Care: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many civil servants who are not special advisers he has appointed without open competition since the general election.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 30 Aug 2024
Target answer date: 4 Sept 2024
Answer: 16 Sept 2024 · 17 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many civil servants who are not special advisers he has appointed without open competition since the general election.
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 sets out the requirement for the Civil Service Commission to establish recruitment principles which departments must follow. The Recruitment Principles 2018 provide the legal requirement for the selection ...

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