Civil Servants: Political Impartiality
Commons · Question 98587 · Tabled 9 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office · Official record
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
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
Answered by Anna Turley, 15 Dec 2025
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...