Question to the Cabinet Office:

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

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