Question follow-through · 6091
Civil Service: Facilities Agreements
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost of the new Trade Union Facility Time Framework to the Civil Service.
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A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost of the new Trade Union Facility Time Framework to the Civil Service.
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2026
Answer published
The updated Civil Service Facility Time Framework and Guidance recommends that facility time expenditure remains limited to 0.1% of a department’s pay bill, and that trade union representatives spend at least 50% of their time delivering their official Ci...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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