Question follow-through · 100973
Cabinet Office: Career Development
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of staff were promoted (a) in-grade and (b) to a higher grade in the last year broken down by (i) performance marking in the previous year and (ii) grade.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2026 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of staff were promoted (a) in-grade and (b) to a higher grade in the last year broken down by (i) performance marking in the previous year and (ii) grade.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2026
Answer published
This data would be difficult to present, due to there being no definition of an in grade promotion and limited data on staff who go on promotion to another department. Collation and presentation of this data would require significant manual work and data ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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