Question follow-through · 58628

Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of job applications to the civil service in the last 12 months.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
12 Jun 2025
Answer
18 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of job applications to the civil service in the last 12 months.

  2. 12 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The number of vacancies advertised via the Civil Service (CS) Jobs website has decreased over the past full financial year and applications received via CS Jobs have increased.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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