Question follow-through · 15353
Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the answer of 2 March 2026, to Question 108235, on Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment, how many of the 90 SCS roles which were not recruited externally, broken down by pay band, were in his Dep
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 2 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the answer of 2 March 2026, to Question 108235, on Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment, how many of the 90 SCS roles which were not recruited externally, broken down by pay band, were in his Dep
6 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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14 Jul 2026
Answer published
The table below provides provisional offers made by Cabinet Office, broken down by grade for the Senior Civil Service (SCS) roles referenced in our previous response, covering the period from January 1 2025 to December 31 2025: GradeOffers MadeSCS Pay Ban...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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