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5 November 2025
Baroness Gisela Stuart, First Civil Service Commissioner, and Atul Devani, Civil Service Commissioner and entrepreneur, joined a recent Institute for Government panel on “Leadership change in the civil service: How can new permanent secretaries deliver for government?” The discussion explored how the Commission works with departments to recruit its senior leaders and the role of...
3 November 2025
The Civil Service Commission has published its strategy for 2025-2027. This outlines our foundations, mission, impact and priorities for the next two years.
29 October 2025
Baroness Gisela Stuart, The First Civil Service Commissioner, has provided her first quarterly update to the Minister for the Cabinet Office on the Civil Service Commission’s application of the Business Appointment Rules.
2 October 2025
The First Civil Service Commissioner wrote to the Permanent Secretaries on 2 October 2025. The update included: The link to the letter can be found here.
19 September 2025
Baroness Gisela Stuart, First Civil Service Commissioner On 13 October 2025 the Civil Service Commission will formally assume responsibility for advising on applications from senior civil servants and special advisers under the government’s Business Appointment rules. This is an important development for the Commission, giving us responsibility for advising on exit, as well as being...
4 September 2025
The government announced on 21 July 2025 that ACOBA will close, and that as of 13 October 2025 the Civil Service Commission will take on a new role providing independent advice on, and scrutiny of, the application of the Business Appointment Rules (BARs) for civil servants and special advisers. Interim arrangements After Friday 12 September:...
5 August 2025
New Recruitment Principles Training Workshops Following positive engagement with the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles training across 2024/25, we are pleased to announce a series of new training workshops aimed at further supporting departments to run fair, open and merit-based recruitment. Many of these draw on common trends identified through the Commission’s 2024/25 audit. These...
21 July 2025
The Rt. Hon. Baroness Gisela Stuart of Edgbaston, First Civil Service Commissioner, has written to the Rt. Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and His Majesty’s Paymaster General, responding to his invitation to the Civil Service Commission to take on a new role providing independent advice on, and scrutiny of, the application...
25 June 2025
The First Civil Service Commissioner, Baroness Gisela Stuart, has written to the Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Sir Chris Wormald KCB, outlining how the Commission aims to help the Civil Service recruit and promote the best skills and capabilities to deliver for UK citizens. The letter reaffirms the Commission’s guiding principle as...
11 June 2025
Chris PilgrimAs the independent regulator, our job is to provide assurance that appointments into the Civil Service are made fairly, openly, and on merit – to help the Civil Service recruit the people and talent it needs. As well as personally chairing senior level recruitment, the Commission audits a sample of recruitment campaigns across departments...