Senior Civil Servants: Overseas Workers

(asked on 9th June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord True on 6 June (HL302), how many UK-based (1) Permanent Secretaries, and (2) Senior Civil Servants, have been working from abroad at any time in the last 24 months.


Answered by
Lord True Portrait
Lord True
Shadow Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 22nd June 2022

As I stated in my response to HL302 on 6 June, the Cabinet Office does not hold departmental information about civil servants in UK-based senior leadership roles working from abroad.

In terms of departmental records, these records are not collected by the Cabinet Office, with information captured at a line manager level.

Working abroad has always been by exception in the Cabinet Office and is not permitted unless there is a specific business need or under the most exceptional of circumstances (an example of which might be where an employee’s partner is a civil servant and is permanently posted abroad).

This is still the current position of the Cabinet Office.

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