Question follow-through · 51157

Government Departments: Public Appointments

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Civil Service Commission's publication entitled How Departments are doing on fair and open recruitment: what the Commission’s audits found, published in April 2025, in which departments aud

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
9 May 2025
Target answer date
15 May 2025
Answer
15 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 9 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Civil Service Commission's publication entitled How Departments are doing on fair and open recruitment: what the Commission’s audits found, published in April 2025, in which departments aud

  2. 15 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 15 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Civil Service Commission is operationally independent of the Government. The Commission reports on its audit activity each year in its Annual Report but does not publish individual departmental audits. The Commission additionally published a review in...

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