Accountability of Civil Servants to the Government

In any democracy, Ministers are responsible to the people through Parliament while the civil servants are accountable to the government.

• However, at the same time, civil service should be apolitical, performing its functions in an impartial and professional manner. There are also the broader accountability obligations of the civil servants which means that they should be openly accountable for all their actions, within the framework of ministerial responsibility, to the government and to the legislature.
• Impartial civil servantsare responsible not only to the government of the day but to the Constitution of the land to which they have taken an oath of ....