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Civil Servants: Recruitment

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Question for Cabinet Office

UIN 1411, tabled on 8 January 2020

Question

Rosie Duffield
Labour
Canterbury
Commons

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the blog post dated 2 January 2020 published by Dominic Cummings, what steps he is taking to ensure that the proposed recruitment processes are compliant with (a) General Data Protection Regulation, (b) the Civil Service code and (c) the Equality Act 2010.

Answer

Oliver Dowden
Conservative
Hertsmere
Commons

Answered on

14 January 2020

The blog invites people to get in touch to discuss opportunities. The blog post does not set out proposed recruitment processes.

Recruitment to the Civil Service is through fair and open competition following section 10 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act.

Special Adviser appointments are made by Ministers in accordance with section 15 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act.

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