questionText: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the policy paper entitled Fixing the Foundations: Public Spending Audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, CP 1133, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of civil service salaries in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial year (i) before and (ii) after the decisions on (A) civil service pay increases and (B) the size of the civil service set out in that policy paper.
answerText: Pay for civil servants outside of the Senior Civil Service is not set centrally; rather, departments and bodies have freedom to make decisions on pay within the parameters of the Pay Remit Guidance published annually by the Cabinet Office. The Pay Remit G...
heading: Civil Servants: Pay