Question follow-through · 14067

Civil Servants: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that civil servants can express their lawful beliefs on (a) biological sex and (b) other issues.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 13 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 18 Nov 2024
Answer: 2 Dec 2024 · 19 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

13 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that civil servants can express their lawful beliefs on (a) biological sex and (b) other issues.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
Civil servants can express their lawful beliefs, as long as how they do so is consistent with the Civil Service Code, which outlines the standards of behaviour all civil servants are expected to uphold.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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