Question follow-through · 88782
Department for Education: Public Bodies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have been employed by (a) OFSTED, (b) OFQUAL and (c) the Office for Students in each year since 2005.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 17 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Education and skills
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- Department for Education: Performance Appraisal · 3 Dec 2025
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Recorded timeline
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have been employed by (a) OFSTED, (b) OFQUAL and (c) the Office for Students in each year since 2005.
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Nov 2025
Answer published
Information on the headcount and budgets for Ofsted, Ofqual and the Office for Students’ is publicly available within each organisation’s published Annual Report and Accounts, available at:Ofsted: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ofsted-corporate...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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