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.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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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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Recorded timeline

  1. 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.

  2. 13 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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