Letter from Clerk of the Committee to
Civil Service Capability Group, 3 September 2009
Many thanks for your letter of 25 August, in
response to my original letter requesting information as part
of the Committee's current inquiry into Outside Appointments to
the Senior Civil Service. The information contained in your letter
will be very helpful to the Committee's inquiry. I am especially
grateful for such a timely reply.
You were kind enough in your letter to offer to answer
any further questions we might have, and I wonder if I could ask
a few questions of clarification regarding the information in
your 25 August letter. These are as follows:
1. The response to Question 5 sets out the numbers
of external SCS members in each government department. To put
these figures in context, what is the total number of SCS members
in each department?
2. In relation to your response to Question 9,
are the results of exit interviews conducted by departments categorised
and analysed according to whether the leaver was an external recruit
or an internal one?
3. What monitoring of the progress of Fast Stream
civil servants takes place over their careers after initial recruitment?
What proportion of SCS come from a Fast Stream background? What
proportion of Fast Stream civil servants reach the SCS?
I would very much appreciate a response to these
questions by Wednesday 23 September.
Many thanks once again for your help, and I
look forward to hearing from you.
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