Question follow-through · 4161

Civil Servants: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to consolidate the number of national pay bargaining units in the civil service.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
5 Sept 2024
Answer
11 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to consolidate the number of national pay bargaining units in the civil service.

  2. 5 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    Pay arrangements for civil servants below the Senior Civil Service are delegated to departments. Under the framework of delegation, each department and agency has the power to determine its own terms and conditions of employment and is therefore a separat...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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