Question follow-through · 9647
Civil Servants: Political Impartiality
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what safeguards are in place to ensure that public sector employees are not subject to political vetting, pressure or monitoring by internal staff networks.
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
- 15 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2026 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what safeguards are in place to ensure that public sector employees are not subject to political vetting, pressure or monitoring by internal staff networks.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2026
Answer published
All civil servants must follow the Civil Service Code, including when acting in a volunteer civil service staff network capacity. This includes acting with political impartiality at all times. The public sector is not bound by the Civil Service Code but p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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