Question follow-through · 127239

Prime Minister: Termination of Employment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff members have left their roles working in 10 Downing Street in each of the last 12 months; and how many of those received a redundancy payment in each of the last 12 months.

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 14 Apr 2026
Target answer date: 20 Apr 2026
Answer: 22 Apr 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

14 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff members have left their roles working in 10 Downing Street in each of the last 12 months; and how many of those received a redundancy payment in each of the last 12 months.
20 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2026
Answer published
Data on the number of officials in the Cabinet Office is published monthly at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-workforce-management-data-2023-to-2024. Business Unit level data including for Business Units in Number 10 Downing Stre...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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