questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
answerText: Civil Service recruitment is governed by the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act (CRaGA) 2010, which requires that all appointments to the Civil Service are made on merit on the basis of fair and open competition.The Department for Business and Trade...
heading: Department for Business and Trade: Recruitment