Question follow-through · 3344

Senior Civil Servants: Termination of Employment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Cabinet Secretaries and Permanent Secretaries have left the Civil Service through mutually agreed exits since 4 July 2024.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 20 May 2026
Target answer date: 1 Jun 2026
Answer: 12 Jun 2026 · 23 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

20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Cabinet Secretaries and Permanent Secretaries have left the Civil Service through mutually agreed exits since 4 July 2024.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2026
Answer published
No Cabinet Secretaries or Permanent Secretaries have left through ‘mutually agreed exits’.A mutually agreed exit is defined as a form of negotiated exit under the terms of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS).Details of any payments made to perman...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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