Question follow-through · 41126

Cabinet Office: Ministers' Private Offices

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 13807 on Cabinet Office: Parliamentary Private Secretaries, if he will breakdown the number of staff in each ministerial private office, by named Minister.

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 25 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 27 Mar 2025
Answer: 31 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 13807 on Cabinet Office: Parliamentary Private Secretaries, if he will breakdown the number of staff in each ministerial private office, by named Minister.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
There are 38 staff, at multiple grades, who support the 8 Cabinet Office ministers in private office roles. MinisterNumber of staff in Private OfficeChancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster8Minister for the Cabinet Office6Minister Oppong-Asare3Minister Reeves...

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