Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of appointments in the Civil Service were made (a) internally and (b) externally in each year since 2010.

Due to platform changes for the Civil Service Jobs website, the department only holds central information regarding appointments from April 2014. The information held includes appointments advertised on Civil Service jobs for 39 government departments and organisations. As well as this, the information also includes data from the Civil Service Fast Stream and the Direct Entry Scheme, which is for ‘near miss’ Fast Stream applicants. The information does not include information on Civil Service Fast Track data.

Departments are also able to recruit through third party providers, meaning the Cabinet Office is not able to include these figures in this response. The Cabinet Office will not be including information on appointments to the Senior Civil Service as this will be covered by a separate response to a different Parliamentary Question you have submitted.

For central records held:

• In 2014, from April of that year, the proportion of appointments in the Civil Service made to internal candidates was 67.9%, with external candidates being 32.1%.

• In 2015, the proportion of appointments in the Civil Service made to internal candidates was 67.2%, with external candidates being 32.8%.

• In 2016, the proportion of appointments in the Civil Service made to internal candidates was 63.3%, with external candidates being 37.7%. Please note that these percentages do not include Civil Service Fast Stream or Direct Entry Scheme as these figures are being prepared for future publication.