Question follow-through · 8934
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department takes factors other than merit into consideration when it comes to (a) appointments and (b) promotions.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department takes factors other than merit into consideration when it comes to (a) appointments and (b) promotions.
15 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office seeks to maintain the highest standards of integrity, fairness and impartiality in such matters, in line with Civil Service Recruitment Principles, and I would be happy to compare these processes with the m...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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