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Ministry of Justice: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
5 Jan 2026
Answer
5 Jan 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.

  2. 5 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 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 accredited official statistics release Public Sector Employment, UK: September 2025. This can be access...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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