Question follow-through · 74531
Ministers' Private Offices: Civil Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many appointments to ministerial private offices since July 2024 have been made by civil service recruitment principles exceptions including the transfer of civil servants from other department
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 19 Sept 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many appointments to ministerial private offices since July 2024 have been made by civil service recruitment principles exceptions including the transfer of civil servants from other department
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Department has made one appointment to ministerial private offices since July 2024 to 4 September 2025 by exception to the Civil Service recruitment principles.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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