Civil Service - can they pull job offer before 'formal offer'?

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I applied for a civil service position and received an offer by email, followed up with a call.

The CS jobs portal updated over the next week and confirmed I had passed security checks. Then had remote call with new manager to discuss start dates and understood they want me asap, and would get the formal offer out within a couple of days. It's been a week and nothing. I emailed new manager yesterday and no reply, no out of office.

Have they changed their minds? ! Can they withdraw the offer at this late stage? I know I've passed the various checks and am an existing civil servant. This was an externally advertised post.

The advert mentioned existing CS must move on secondment but this hasn't been mentioned during the recruitment process.

So yeah you should receive the higher salary with DWP. Refusing to honour the promotion is odd, I thought that had become standard for contracts of over a year, and that if you then return to HO you would keep your grade.

The loan is over 6 months

We've always had the original job left open while someone is on secondment and, if they come back, they come back to that job in the original grade. I don't know if the whole HO works like that though.

Yep this is standard

Don’t panic. It just takes forever and they won’t withdraw your offer. Hopefully you won’t have to wait too much longer. It took 6 months in 2001 when I joined from interview to start date, some of my new staff have waited nearly a year! Mad