Question follow-through · 98587
Civil Servants: Political Impartiality
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance has been issued to help civil servants distinguish between acceptable network activity and activity that may breach impartiality rules.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 15 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance has been issued to help civil servants distinguish between acceptable network activity and activity that may breach impartiality rules.
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Staff Network Policy was launched on 23 September 2025 and is applicable to all cross-Civil Service Staff networks, from this date. Departments have been strongly encouraged to adopt or align to this policy for their own departmental networks. The pol...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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