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Senior Civil Servants: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants earn (a) over £100,000 and (b) more than the Prime Minister.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 29 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 31 Oct 2024
Answer: 6 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

29 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants earn (a) over £100,000 and (b) more than the Prime Minister.
31 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Nov 2024
Answer published
Civil Service Statistics (Table 35) provides information on the number of civil servants earning over £100,000 and in other bandings. The latest information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2024 The prev...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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