Question follow-through · 16836
Department for Transport: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, other than special advisers, whether her Department has appointed anyone from outside the civil service since July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jul 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, other than special advisers, whether her Department has appointed anyone from outside the civil service since July 2024.
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Department has made appointments since July 2024. Candidates that have been successfully appointed to a public appointment (whether regulated or unregulated) are generally announced on the Public Appointments Service announcements page. Candidates th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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