Question follow-through · 97195
Home Office: Redundancy Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost was of (a) settlement agreements and (b) special severance payments made to departing staff in her Department in the last year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 32 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost was of (a) settlement agreements and (b) special severance payments made to departing staff in her Department in the last year.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Home Office does not publish specific information on settlement agreements and special severance payments for departing staff.The Home Office does publish the overall payments made to staff exiting the department each year and this is outlined in the ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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