Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost was of civil service salaries in each year since 1997.

The Cabinet Office does not hold actual outturn salary cost information for all Civil Service departments and organisations since 1997.

However, estimated nominal Civil Service salary costs have previously been calculated for the years 2010 to 2023. These are provided in Table 1 below.

Table 1

Source: Civil Service Statistics

Figures are based on Civil Service salaries as at 31st March in each year, and have been adjusted for missing values. They have not been adjusted for inflation (i.e. they are nominal values).