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Department for Transport: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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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Department for Transport
Tabled
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
9 Jun 2025
Answer
13 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 4 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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

  2. 9 Jun 2025

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  3. 13 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    There are no permanent civil servants within DfTc and the Agencies without assigned posts.The Department for Transport (DfTc and the Agencies) has a priority movers list/redeployment register. Within a payroll workforce of over 16000*, the number of peopl...

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