Question follow-through · 101332

Home Office: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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: Home Office
Tabled: 18 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 5 Jan 2026
Answer: 9 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

18 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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