Tom Pursglove – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Pursglove on 2015-10-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil servants in her Department are members of trades unions; how much working hours facility time is claimed by each such civil servant; and what the cost of that facility time is to her Department.

Nick Gibb

The Department for Education does not hold records on how many civil servants are members of a trade union.

The Cabinet Office publishes data relating to civil service facility time on a quarterly basis. The latest data is Quarter 4, 2014 and is available online here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time

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