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Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment

Lords · Question HL3030 · Tabled 2 Sep 2026 · Cabinet Office · Official record

Answered 24 Sep 2026

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Asked by Baroness Shawcross-Wolfson

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of appointments to the Senior Civil Service since 1 April 2026 have been made to candidates whose principal previous employment was (1) elsewhere in the Civil Service, (2) the wider public sector, and (3) th

Answer

Answered by Baroness Twycross, 24 Sep 2026

Cabinet Office does not yet hold data centrally for Senior Civil Service entrants after 1st April 2026, though individual departments may hold this data for their own Senior Civil Servants. The following table shows the proportion of centrally-managed Sen...

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