Tom Pursglove – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Pursglove on 2015-10-27.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants in his Department are members of trades unions; how many working hours of facility time are taken by such civil servants; and what estimate he has made of the cost of that facility time to his Department.

Matthew Hancock

The number of civil servants who are trade union members is a matter for individual trade unions.

The Cabinet Office publishes data relating to Civil Service facility time on a quarterly basis. The latest published data is for Quarters 1-4, 2014 and is available at:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time

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