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Civil Service: Trade Unions

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 24 October 2025UIN 82337

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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Civil Service staff networks to only meet outside working hours and have all events signed off by senior managers, published on 23 September 2025, what a

Answered by Anna Turley

Civil Service staff networks are separate to trade union activities and duties carried out by trade union representatives in the Civil Service. As such the Civil Service Staff Network Policy does not apply to its trade union representatives.

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