Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 September 2024 to Question 4642 on Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment, what the process is by which a recruitment principles exception application to the Civil Service Commission is authorised within Departments.

Each department will have its own process for authorising the use of exceptions, in accordance with the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles 2018 and the Civil Service Management Code. Details of these processes are not held centrally.