Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the proposed 91,000 jobs due to be cut from the civil service will be from her Department.

All Departments, including the Home Office have been asked to develop plans to deliver against the target to return the Civil Service workforce to the level it was at in 2016.

The Home Office is currently conducting a Workforce Review in line with the direction set by the Prime Minister. This will consider the entire civil service workforce of the department and it’s arms length bodies.

Departments are required to provide their plans to the Cabinet Office by 30^th June.

Specific reductions have not yet been agreed for any Government department.