Question follow-through · 14255
Civil Service
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans the Government has for civil service (a) headcount levels and (b) budgets for the next five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans the Government has for civil service (a) headcount levels and (b) budgets for the next five years.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
This government is committed to ensuring departments consider overall value for money in resourcing decisions.To this end it has introduced a 2% target for reduction to administration budgets in financial years 2024-25 and 2025-26 and a stop to all non-es...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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