Question follow-through · 89588

Home Office: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department had their probationary period extended in the last 12 months.

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Answering body: Home Office
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

11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her 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 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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