Question follow-through · 5031

Mission Boards: Senior Civil Servants

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 1260 on Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment, how many of the appointments for the Director Generals of the five Mission Delivery Boards have been internally adve

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 10 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 12 Sept 2024
Answer: 23 Sept 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 1260 on Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment, how many of the appointments for the Director Generals of the five Mission Delivery Boards have been internally adve
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Sept 2024
Answer published
Five Directors General (DG) have been selected as Senior Responsible Officers (SROs) for each of the five Missions. All five were selected by the Cabinet Secretary and relevant Permanent Secretary, in consultation with their Secretary of State, on the bas...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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