Question follow-through · 16483
Department of Health and Social Care: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many officials were working in his Department, excluding Arm’s Length Bodies, on (a) 13 November 2023, (b) 5 July 2024 and (c) 27 November 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many officials were working in his Department, excluding Arm’s Length Bodies, on (a) 13 November 2023, (b) 5 July 2024 and (c) 27 November 2024.
29 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Department only holds data on the number of officials working in the Department at the end of each calendar month. The following table shows the data for the end of each calendar month from July 2022 to October 2024:MonthHeadcountFull-time equivalentJ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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