Civil Servants: Codes of Practice
(asked on 26th February 2025) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Armstrong Memorandum remains extant.
This question was answered on 12th March 2025
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The Armstrong memorandum of 1985 set out that “it is the duty of civil servants to serve their Ministers with integrity and to the best of their ability”, and that “the British civil service is a non-political and disciplined career service”. This was codified in 1996 with the creation of the Civil Service Code, a document that governs the conduct of civil servants to this day.