Asked by: Tom Pursglove (Conservative - Corby)
Question to the Department for Education:
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.
Answered by 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