Question follow-through · 64571

Senior Civil Servants: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse for Senior Civil Service pay in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial years.

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 2 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 4 Jul 2025
Answer: 8 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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2 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse for Senior Civil Service pay in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial years.
4 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
The latest paybill information for the Senior Civil Service can be found in the 2025/26 annual report by the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB).

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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