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Lords · Question HL11433 · Tabled 28 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office · Official record

Answered 11 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Lord Wigley

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the latest figure for the total number of people employed in the Civil Service, and how many of those people are employed in (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Wales, (4) Northern Ireland, and (5) overseas.

Answer

Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, 11 Nov 2025

Headline information on the number of civil servants are published quarterly by the Office for National Statistics as part of the accredited official statistics release ‘Public Sector Employment Statistics’. Latest data as at June 2025 shows that there ar...