Question follow-through · 100975

Cabinet Office: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost was of (a) settlement agreements and (b) special severance payments made to departing staff in the last year.

answeredCabinet Office

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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

  1. 17 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost was of (a) settlement agreements and (b) special severance payments made to departing staff in the last year.

  2. 5 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    For the last financial year, the total cost to the Cabinet Office of payments associated with settlement agreements is set out in Annual Report and Accounts. Please find attached link here Figures for 2025/26 are not yet available as the analysis has not ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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