Question follow-through · 100835
Department for Business and Trade: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, 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 Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2026 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, 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
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Trading Standards: South Holland and the Deepings
5 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many trading standards inspections of high street shops took place in South Holland and the Deepings constituency in each of the last three years.
New Businesses: Lincolnshire
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support (a) start-ups and (b) scale-ups in (i) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (ii) Lincolnshire.
Exports: Lincolnshire
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help improve access to export support services for SMEs in Lincolnshire.
Retail Trade: South Holland and the Deepings
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps his Department has taken to help support independent high street businesses in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
Department for Business and Trade: Visas
25 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff within his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
Department for Business and Trade: Recruitment
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, 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.
Manufacturing Industries: East Midlands
16 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to promote the manufacturing sector in (1) Lincolnshire and (2) the East Midlands.
Department for Business and Trade: Redundancy Pay
17 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
Department for Business and Trade: Social Media
24 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has paid for followers on social media platforms it uses.
Fuel Oil: Prices
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many reports of suspected price gouging for the price of heating oil have been made to the Competition and Markets Authority since 28 February 2026.
Department for Business and Trade: Artificial Intelligence
13 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether their Department has used artificial intelligence to assist with drafting (a) legislation and (b) policy in the past 12 months.
Business: Energy
21 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the regional distribution of energy cost support for businesses in Lincolnshire.