Question follow-through · 123566

Home Office: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the total value of non-contractual severance payments across the department in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
24 Mar 2026
Target answer date
13 Apr 2026
Answer
13 Apr 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the total value of non-contractual severance payments across the department in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

  2. 13 Apr 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    The Home Office does not publish details of the value of non-contractual severance payments separately.However, the Home Office does publish overall special payments spending on a financial year basis and details of this can be found through the links bel...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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