Question follow-through · 57589
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, 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 r
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, 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 r
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
At any point in time, there is likely to be a small number of individuals who have been displaced due to restructures within their business units or who, for example, have returned from a loan from another department and their role no longer exists. The e...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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