Question follow-through · 37031
Civil Servants
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the (a) total number of employees and (b) full-time equivalent headcount will be in the civil service by the end of this Parliament; and what the total employment costs for civil ser
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the (a) total number of employees and (b) full-time equivalent headcount will be in the civil service by the end of this Parliament; and what the total employment costs for civil ser
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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24 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Prime Minister has set out his ambition to deliver long-term, impactful changes to reshape the British state and the Government is taking forward a number of measures to deliver greater efficiency and transformation in the Civil Service. Each departme...
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Later records
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