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COBR: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff employed in the Resilience Directorate in January 2025 have been retained within the COBR Directorate; and how many of those staff are employed at each civil service grade.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
8 Jun 2026
Answer
30 Jun 2026 · 27 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff employed in the Resilience Directorate in January 2025 have been retained within the COBR Directorate; and how many of those staff are employed at each civil service grade.

  2. 8 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    In January 2025, 74 FTE staff were employed in the Resilience Directorate. In July 2025, the Resilience Directorate, the COBR Unit and the National Situation Centre merged into the new COBR Directorate. The responsibilities of the previous Resilience Dire...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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