Question follow-through · 100834
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2026 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
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- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Recruitment · 10 Mar 2026
- Fuel Oil: Lincolnshire · 16 Mar 2026
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Redundancy Pay · 20 Mar 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2026
Answer published
Information on the number of civil servants employed on temporary contracts is published quarterly by the Office for National Statistics as part of the quarterly Public Sector Employment statistics. Information can be accessed for September 2025 at the fo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Fuels: South Holland and the Deepings
7 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support (a) consumers and (b) businesses in South Holland and the Deepings constituency with (1) petrol and (2) diesel costs.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Visas
2 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many staff in his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Recruitment
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
Fuel Oil: Lincolnshire
16 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) households and (a) businesses reliant on heating oil in Lincolnshire.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Redundancy Pay
20 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Social Media
24 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has paid for followers on social media platforms it uses.
Renewable Energy: Lincolnshire
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the number of renewable energy projects awaiting grid connection in (1) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (2) Lincolnshire.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Artificial Intelligence
17 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has used artificial intelligence to assist with drafting (a) legislation and (b) policy in the last 12 months.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Training
22 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will publish a list of training programmes used by civil servants in his Department since 2023.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Training
13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will publish a list of training programmes used by civil servants in his Department since 2023.
Energy: Prices
13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what fiscal steps he is taking to help reduce the cost of household energy bills for people in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
Diesel and Petrol: Prices
21 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of recent trends in levels of (a) petrol and (b) diesel prices in Lincolnshire.