Question follow-through · 5819

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 2 August 2024 to Question 1988, whether he made an assessment of the potential merits of holding an open competition for the appointment of the Director Genera

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Answering body: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Tabled: 12 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 7 Oct 2024
Answer: 10 Oct 2024 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 2 August 2024 to Question 1988, whether he made an assessment of the potential merits of holding an open competition for the appointment of the Director Genera
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Oct 2024
Answer published
Consideration was given to running an open recruitment competition for this role, however due to the temporary nature of the role and the need to progress work on the future design of the government Digital Centre at pace, initial use of an exception was ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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