Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office on 9 June (6091), whether the (1) Cabinet Office, and (2) Civil Service People Group, have made estimates on changes to the overall annual cost of facility time to (a) the Cabinet Office, and (b) the Civil Service.

The updated Civil Service Facility Time Framework and Guidance recommends that facility time expenditure remains limited to 0.1% of a department’s pay bill, and that trade union representatives spend at least 50% of their time delivering their official Civil Service role.