Question follow-through · 32049
Department for Work and Pensions: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of vacancies in her Department.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 26 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of vacancies in her Department.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Feb 2025
Answer published
DWP is a demand led organisation which determines the level of staffing resource required to deliver our services. Workforce Plans, which include recruitment, set out detailed plans to deliver the required level of resource. Workforce Plans are regularly ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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