What is the Civil Service in the United Kingdom?

The civil service has been in existence since 1854 and is the governmental organization primarily responsible for the recruitment, training, and career management of Her Majesty’s Government Service. The Civil Service regulates recruitment to the Civil Service, providing assurance that appointments are on merit after the fair and open competition. It also helps promote the Civil Service values of Honesty, Integrity, Objectivity, and Impartiality, and hears complaints under the Civil Service Code. The Commission is independent of Government and the Civil Service. Because admission into the civil service is based entirely on merit, the organization has often been faulted as “elitist” and “aristocratic;” indeed, the archetypal British “stiff upper lip” is often associated with “overbearing and arrogant” civil service personnel who are known to flaunt their social and academic pedigree whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself. Not surprisingly perhaps, nearly seventy-two percent of civil service personnel are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and other prestigious educational institutions such as the London School of Economics, Sandhurst or of exclusive “prep” schools like Eton and Harrow.

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