questionText: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will instruct the (a) Cabinet Secretary and Head of Civil Service and (b) Civil Service Commission to make an assessment of the probity of appointments as civil servants without open and fair competition of people who have previously worked for (a) the Labour Party, (b) Labour Party parliamentarians and (c) Labour-affiliated organisations as civil servants.
answerText: The Cabinet Secretary wrote to the Leader of the Opposition on 30th August 2024 addressing this issue and the use of Exceptions to the Recruitment Principles. 
heading: Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment