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What is a public appointment and how to apply for one.
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments' advice in relation to appointments it is aware have been taken up, or announced, in 2018-2019
The Public Appointments Data Report 2021/22 provides a diversity breakdown of public appointees.
What to do when you are leaving, or have left, Crown service or ministerial office, and you're starting another role.
Find a voluntary or paid position with public bodies, such as non-executive director, trustee, members of advisory council.
The Commissioner for Public Appointments regulates the processes by which ministers make appointments to the boards of national and regional public bodies. The commissioner aims to ensure that such appointments are made on merit after a fair, open and transparent...
Advice provided by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments from 2014-15 to 2017-2018 inclusive, where an outside appointment has been taken up or announced.
Summaries of advice given under the business appointment rules to applicants at SCS2 and SCS1 level and equivalents.
All outside appointments or employment taken up by former Department for Transport staff at senior civil service levels SCS1 and SCS2.
Find out more about our public appointments, latest vacancies and recent announcements.
A collection of summaries of advice given under the business appointment rules to applicants at SCS2 and SCS1 level and equivalents.
This series brings together all Head of post appointments
All outside appointments or employment taken up by former HMRC staff at senior civil service levels SCS1 and SCS2.
Information about ministerial appointments to a non-statutory office (known as direct appointments).
Following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister on 13 July 2016, a number of new ministers were appointed.
All outside appointments or employment taken up by former Department of Health and Social Care staff at Senior Civil Service levels SCS1 and SCS2.
All outside appointments or employment taken up by former DESNZ staff at senior civil service levels SCS1 and SCS2.
Originally established in 2001, it was renamed the Appointments Commission and was abolished in 2012.
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