Question follow-through · 57585
Department for Business and Trade: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many permanent civil servants in his Department are staff without assigned posts; and how many are placed in an equivalent (a) people action team, (b) priority movers list, (c) redeployment registe
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many permanent civil servants in his Department are staff without assigned posts; and how many are placed in an equivalent (a) people action team, (b) priority movers list, (c) redeployment registe
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jun 2025
Answer published
At any point in time, there is likely to be a number of individuals who have been displaced due to restructures within business units or have returned from a loan from another department and their role no longer exists. The exact number changes on a day t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Horizon IT System: Convictions
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Horizon It System: Compensation
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Horizon IT System: Convictions
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Newspaper Press
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Digital Technology: Subscriptions
31 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of section 267 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 on platform fees for digital subscriptions.
Subscriptions: Contracts
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Local Press: Subscriptions
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