Office of the Parliamentary Counsel: Staff
(asked on 16th September 2025) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people were employed by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel in total in (1) 2015, and (2) 2025; and how many of those people were employed as (a) counsel, and (b) support staff, in each of those years.
This question was answered on 15th October 2025
The number of staff broken down by grade in the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel is provided in the table below for both 2015 and 2025.
Grade | 2015 Headcount | 2025 Headcount |
Permanent Secretary | 1 | 1 |
Parliamentary Counsel Grades | 44 | 46 |
Delegated Civil Servant Grades | 13 | 7 |