Question follow-through · 6126
Home Office: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been appointed to civil service positions without open competition in her Department since 4 July 2024; what their (a) job titles and (b) salary bands are; and on what basis each
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been appointed to civil service positions without open competition in her Department since 4 July 2024; what their (a) job titles and (b) salary bands are; and on what basis each
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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14 Oct 2024
Answer published
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18 Oct 2024
Answer corrected
The legal requirement for appointment to the Civil Service (CS) is for selection to be made on merit based on fair and open competition. Under section 12 of the 2010 Constitutional Reform and Governance Act, the CS Commission has the power to except a sel...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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