Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office on 8 June (HC4150), what is the public interest reason for not disclosing the objectives agreed for the last two Cabinet Secretaries; and whether this decision is consistent with the principles contained in paragraph 1.6(d) of the Ministerial Code.

Civil servants’ objectives are drafted as their personal objectives and metrics agreed with their line manager as part of the performance management HR process. There would have been no expectation of them being published in the past unless they agreed to release them.