Question follow-through · 81875
Senior Civil Servants: Resignations
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Permanent Secretaries have left their posts since July 2024; and what was the cost to the public purse of exit packages.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Permanent Secretaries have left their posts since July 2024; and what was the cost to the public purse of exit packages.
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2025
Answer published
Since July 2024, thirteen Permanent Secretaries have left their posts. Any exit package costs are published in Departmental Annual Reports and Accounts for the financial years in which they were made.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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