Civil Service: Political Impartiality

(asked on 29th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans, if any, they have to amend the law on impartiality in the Civil Service.


Answered by
Lord True Portrait
Lord True
Shadow Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 10th July 2020

Part 1 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (CRAGA) provides the statutory basis for the Civil Service Code, and states that the Code must require civil servants to carry out their duties with impartiality. As set out in section 7(5), this requirement does not extend to Special Advisers. The Government has no plans to amend this.

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