Ministry of Defence: Civil Servants — Written Question

Question

Steve Barclay

Conservative — North East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Q134 of the oral evidence given by his Department's Permanent Secretary to the Defence Committee on 17 March 2026, HC 1779, if he will publish the metrics used for tracking the reduction in civi

Answer

Al Carns

The Ministry of Defence publishes metrics to report total Civil Service headcount, and changes over time biannually and are available on gov.uk. (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-biannual-civilian-personnel-report-october-2025) The next editio...

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