Public Appointments
(asked on 3rd November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions his Department has made appointments by exception since 2010; and who was appointed for each such post.
This question was answered on 10th November 2014
The Civil Service Recruitment Principles require recruitment to the Civil Service to be on the basis of merit after fair and open competition. Recruitment is also permitted, without fair and open competition, in an established set of circumstances (‘Exceptions’), when it has not been possible – or it is impracticable or disproportionate given an urgent need for business critical skills - to select someone on merit through fair and open competition. This has been our interpretation of ‘exceptions’ in the context of this question. The following table shows the number of times the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has made use of these exceptions by financial year since 2010. FY 2007/8-103 FY 2008/9-52 FY 2009/10-33 FY 2010/11-15 FY 2011/2012-36 FY 2012/2013-14 FY 2013/2014-25 FY 2014/2015 (to 5/11/14)-15 The figures cover recruitment in the UK where an individual has been identified as as offering particular skills or experience which are critical to the business of the organisation. The FCO does not publish details of staff members.
The Civil Service Recruitment Principles require recruitment to the Civil Service to be on the basis of merit after fair and open competition. Recruitment is also permitted, without fair and open competition, in an established set of circumstances (‘Exceptions’), when it has not been possible – or it is impracticable or disproportionate given an urgent need for business critical skills - to select someone on merit through fair and open competition. This has been our interpretation of ‘exceptions’ in the context of this question. The following table shows the number of times the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has made use of these exceptions by financial year since 2010. FY 2007/8-103 FY 2008/9-52 FY 2009/10-33 FY 2010/11-15 FY 2011/2012-36 FY 2012/2013-14 FY 2013/2014-25 FY 2014/2015 (to 5/11/14)-15 The figures cover recruitment in the UK where an individual has been identified as as offering particular skills or experience which are critical to the business of the organisation. The FCO does not publish details of staff members.