Question follow-through · 118526
Public Appointments: Retirement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will introduce a mandatory retirement age for (a) regulated public appointments and (b) direct ministerial appointments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will introduce a mandatory retirement age for (a) regulated public appointments and (b) direct ministerial appointments.
10 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2026
Answer published
Departments follow published guidance when making regulated public appointments and direct ministerial appointments: The “Governance Code on Public Appointments” sets out the process for making Public Appointments and includes the principle of appointment...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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