Question follow-through · 119286
Senior Civil Servants
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials in the Senior Civil Service were employed on a full-time equivalent basis in each of the last five years.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials in the Senior Civil Service were employed on a full-time equivalent basis in each of the last five years.
12 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2026
Answer published
Information on the number of civil servants working at SCS level employed on a full-time equivalent basis is published annually by Cabinet Office as part of the accredited official statistics publication ‘Civil Service Statistics’. Data as at 31 March eac...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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