§ Ms HodgeTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many employment vacancies in the civil service in grades 1 and 2 have been (i) externally advertised and (ii) filled by external applicants since the publication of the White Paper on the reform of the civil service.
Mr. Robert G. HughesSince the publication of the civil service White Paper "The Civil Service: Continuity and Change" in July 1994, five vacancies at these levels or with equivalent pay rates have been externally advertised.
So far, appointments have been made to three of these posts, of which one was an external applicant and one was an agency chief executive originally recruited as an external applicant.