Question follow-through · 118205
Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many job advertisements were published on the Civil Service jobs website in 2025 which were (a) available on public website and (b) only available to Civil Services within the passworded website.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 9 Apr 2026 · 35 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many job advertisements were published on the Civil Service jobs website in 2025 which were (a) available on public website and (b) only available to Civil Services within the passworded website.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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9 Apr 2026
Answer published
In 2025, there were 45,566 job adverts published on Civil Service Jobs. Of these, 24,865 (54.6%) were available to the public. The remaining 20,701 (45.4%) were advised internally and/or cross-government, meaning they were available only to existing civil...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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