Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 98587

Civil Servants: Political Impartiality

Tabled: 9 December 2025
Answered: 15 December 2025

Question

Mr Andrew Snowden

Conservative — Fylde

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance has been issued to help civil servants distinguish between acceptable network activity and activity that may breach impartiality rules.

Answer

Anna Turley
The Staff Network Policy was launched on 23 September 2025 and is applicable to all cross-Civil Service Staff networks, from this date. Departments have been strongly encouraged to adopt or align to this policy for their own departmental networks. The pol...
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