Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on how many occasions his Department has had requests for appointments by exception to the Senior Civil Service turned down by the Civil Service Commission since 2010; and who was appointed for each such post.

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given by my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, on 10^th November.