Question follow-through · 19282
Department for Business and Trade: Senior Civil Servants
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many applications his Department received for the Second Permanent Secretary for European Union and International Economic Affairs role advertised in November 2024.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many applications his Department received for the Second Permanent Secretary for European Union and International Economic Affairs role advertised in November 2024.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
Applications have closed for the Cabinet Office Second Permanent Secretary for European Union and International Economic Affairs role. As was practice under the previous administration we do not comment on competitions underway.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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