Question follow-through · 39636
Department for Work and Pensions: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has had a recruitment freeze on any roles in the last 12 months; and whether she plans to implement a recruitment freeze in the next 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has had a recruitment freeze on any roles in the last 12 months; and whether she plans to implement a recruitment freeze in the next 12 months.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Department for Work and Pensions has not had a recruitment freeze on any roles in the last 12 months. There are no current plans in place to implement a recruitment freeze in the next 12 months, and the Department will continue to manage overall reso...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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