Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost was of civil service pay (a) including and (b) excluding National Insurance employer contributions in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.

The Cabinet Office does not hold actual outturn payroll costs for all Civil Service departments and organisations.

However, the estimated total snapshot paybill cost as at the 31st March 2024 is £28.1bn. This includes salary costs, in year and end of year non consolidated performance related payments (NCPRPs), and estimated employer national insurance and pensions payments using 2024/25 employer contribution rates.

Excluding estimated NI employer contributions the estimated paybill is £26.0bn.

Source: Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES), Cabinet Office. Analysis of the pay data collected through ACSES as at 31st March 2024.