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Civil Servants: Temporary Employment

Asked by Jim ShannonDemocratic Unionist PartyCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 1 July 2026UIN 12668

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Civil Service employees are on temporary contracts for which the latest data is available.

Answered by Satvir Kaur

The total number of civil servants on a temporary contract, including those on casual contracts, is published quarterly by Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of their quarterly public sector employment statistics and is available at Table 8 of each release:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable

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