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Department for Education: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many permanent civil servants in her Department are staff without assigned posts; and how many are placed in an equivalent (a) people action team, (b) priority movers list, (c) redeployment register, (d) ta
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many permanent civil servants in her Department are staff without assigned posts; and how many are placed in an equivalent (a) people action team, (b) priority movers list, (c) redeployment register, (d) ta
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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25 Jun 2025
Answer published
At any point in time, there are likely to be a small number of individuals who have been displaced due to restructures within their business units or, for example, have returned from a loan from another department and their role no longer exists. The exac...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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