Question follow-through · 115310
Department for Education: Personnel Management
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many directors with responsibility for human resources are employed across their department and its executive agencies; and how many of those directors hold professional HR qualifications from the Chartered
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 23 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2026 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many directors with responsibility for human resources are employed across their department and its executive agencies; and how many of those directors hold professional HR qualifications from the Chartered
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2026
Answer published
Organograms for the department, including senior civil service posts, are published on GOV.UK here: https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/5a1f3831-86d6-4979-9164-99e982361ca4/organogram-department-for-education. The data sets out director-level roles and respon...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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