Question follow-through · 89581
Department for Work and Pensions: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department had their probationary period extended in the last 12 months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department had their probationary period extended in the last 12 months.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not held centrally and due to the additional activity that would be required to provide it, would incur disproportionate cost.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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