Civil Servants: Recruitment

(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of civil service roles were advertised externally for each year since 2010.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 13th September 2017

Unfortunately, the department only holds information regarding advertised roles in the Civil Service from January 2011. The information below includes appointments advertised on Civil Service jobs, which includes adverts from 159 government departments and organisations, and appointments to the Civil Service Fast Stream and through the Fast Track apprenticeship scheme.

Departments are able to recruit through third party providers however, meaning that this response is not representational of all advertised roles for the Civil Service, only the ones that are advertised centrally. It is also worth noting that the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship only started in 2013.

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.

The proportion of civil service roles that were advertised externally since January 2011 is as follows.

2011 – 25.9%

2012 – 35.4%

2013 – 30.6%

2014 – 31.6%

2015 – 46.4%

2016 – 53.7% - not including Fast Stream figures as these are being prepared for future publication

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