Civil Servants: Codes of Practice

(asked on 18th May 2026) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what advice or guidance (1) the Civil Service People Group, and (2) the Cabinet Secretary, have issued about intimate relationships between Civil Service colleagues, other than the Civil Service Code and Civil Service Management Code; whether (a) junior, and (b) senior, civil servants are permitted to enter sexual relationships with co-workers; what requirements exist to declare such relationships where there is a reporting line or managerial responsibility; and how conflicts of interest are managed in that regard.


Answered by
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent Portrait
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
This question was answered on 3rd June 2026

No such guidance has been issued.

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