Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 9 October 2026 to Question 27957 on Cabinet Office: Audit, whether the nature of Civil Service recruitment principles breach involved (a) Ministers or (b) special advisers.

The responsibility for recruitment compliance sits with the vacancy holder, therefore no Ministerial or Special Advisers were involved in the breach of the Civil Service Recruitment Principles.