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Civil Service: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the total cost of the Civil Service paybill in the (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25 financial years.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
4 Sept 2025
Answer
25 Sept 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the total cost of the Civil Service paybill in the (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25 financial years.

  2. 4 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Salary data for the Civil Service is published annually as part of Civil Service Statistics, an Accredited Official Statistics release, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2025

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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