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Civil Servants: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the policy paper entitled Fixing the Foundations: Public Spending Audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, CP 1133, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of civil service salarie

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 30 Aug 2024
Target answer date: 3 Sept 2024
Answer: 9 Sept 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the policy paper entitled Fixing the Foundations: Public Spending Audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, CP 1133, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of civil service salarie
3 Sept 2024
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9 Sept 2024
Answer published
Pay for civil servants outside of the Senior Civil Service is not set centrally; rather, departments and bodies have freedom to make decisions on pay within the parameters of the Pay Remit Guidance published annually by the Cabinet Office. The Pay Remit G...

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