Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants have been internally promoted (a) temporarily and (b) permanently without competition in the last three years; and what proportion of those civil servants were (a) women and (b) BAME.

The Civil Service Management Code is clear that all promotions and lateral moves within the Civil Service must be based on merit. Data is not currently gathered centrally on promotions (either temporary or permanent), and it is therefore not possible to compare the experience of ethnic minority or female civil servants.