Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 29019

Civil Servants: Recruitment

Tabled: 5 February 2025

Answered: 13 February 2025

Named Day

Question

Mr Richard Holden

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 6093 on Civil Servants: Recruitment, what is the process by which a Minister can request a department (a) appoint and (b) consider appointing a specific ind

Answer

Georgia Gould

The Commission’s Recruitment Principles allow for specific time-limited ‘Exceptions’ to the legal requirement to recruit on merit on the basis of a fair and open competition. Appointment by exception must be either to meet the needs of the government or t...

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