Recommendation 13

The Cabinet Office is looking to put in place measures that will allow it to identify what skills an individual has so that they can be best deployed to maximise impact. The Cabinet Office noted that the Project Delivery function is ahead of the other functions in this regard, as it has introduced its own Project Delivery Capability Framework which includes an assessment tool for users to evaluate their skills. Some 7,000 individuals have recorded and assessed their skills against this framework. The Cabinet Office aims to replicate this model across the other 13 functions.24 It has also, for the first time, included functional membership as one of the questions in the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey in an attempt to understand functional data at an employee level.25