Question follow-through · 101329
Wales Office: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Wales Office
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2026
Answer published
My Department does not employ any Civil Servants on temporary contracts and there are no consultants in my Department. Information on the number of civil servants employed on temporary contracts in my Department is published quarterly by the Office for Na...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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