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Cabinet Office: Facilities Agreements

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 3 February 2026UIN 108664

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in his Department work on the team that collates trade union facility time data; and what databases are used to store the information (a) requested and (b) collected.

Answered by Anna Turley

The Cabinet Office team whose responsibilities previously included, amongst other duties, collating public sector trade union facility time data has five members of staff. Each year the data was published on gov.uk (here). The information is not stored on any databases maintained by the Cabinet Office.

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