CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN CLERK OF THE COMMITTEE AND THE
CIVIL SERVICE CAPABILITY GROUP
Letter from the Clerk of the Committee
to the Civil Service Capability Group, 24 July 2009
The Committee has asked me to write to you with
the following requests for background information relating to
their inquiry into Outside Appointments to the Senior Civil Service.
A reply by Friday 28 August would be particularly helpful.
(b) The "feeder grades" to the SCS, ie
Grades 6 and 7 civil servants?
2. Inflow: Table 2 of the "External SCS"
note[14]
sets out figures on the numbers of new entrants recruited to the
SCS since 2004, with a breakdown of how many are internal entrants
and how many external. Are there equivalent data for:
(a) The "Top 200" posts within the SCS?
(b) The "feeder grades" to the SCS, ie
Grades 6 and 7 civil servants?
3. Since 2004, what proportion of appointments
to SCS posts have been open competitions? (If possible, it would
be useful to have figures on the overall number of SCS appointments
and the number of open competitions in each year since 2004.)
4. Are statistics collected on the specialist
skills/background of external recruits to the SCS, for both Top
200 civil servants and the SCS as a whole? What proportion of
appointments are from the following professions/specialisms:
(a) Information technology.
(b) Finance.
(c) Human resources.
(d) Medical.
(e) Other (please specify).
5. What statistics are available on numbers of
external appointments to SCS posts in individual government departments?
6. Beyond the data on "Outflows" contained
in the "External SCS" note,[15]
what statistics are collected on the retention of external recruits
over time? For example, what proportion of external recruits from
2004-07 remained working within government in 2008, compared to
the same proportion for internal recruits?
7. What data exist on the performance of external
recruits compared to that of internal recruits, and what time
period do these data cover?
8. Are there SCS induction procedures and on-going
support measures that are tailored specifically for external recruits,
and if so, how do these differ from those directed at new SCS
entrants in general?
9. Are exit interviews conducted with people
leaving the SCS? If so, are results from such interviews analysed
according to whether the leaver was an external recruit or an
internal one?
Many thanks for your help, and I look forward
to hearing from you.
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