People Survey 2025 Executive Team correspondence: FOI release

Information requested

All advice and briefing sent to Executive Team members on People Survey 2025.

Response

I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested as per the Annex below.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption under section 38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information.

An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information you have requested because it is personal data of a third party, for example the names of staff who are in grades below the Senior Civil Service.

Please note that the following five themes have changed in the Civil Service People Survey 2025 as some questions that had previously been used in the scores have been removed.

• My work
• My manager
• My team
• Pay and benefits
• Leadership and managing change

This is part of ongoing work by Cabinet Office and the Government People Group to streamline the Civil Service wide Employee Insights Programme. Caution should therefore be exercised when comparing this year’s findings with past trends.

Annex

A – ET Paper 251216 – People Survey 2025 – pdf

B - ET 251216 – ANNEX A – 2025 People Survey Demographic Trend analysis – pdf

C - ET Paper :260120 – CORPORATE – People Survey [ ] – pdf

1 - People Survey 2025 - Update for ET - covering email – pdf

2 - People Survey 2025 – Note to ET – 23 July 2025 – note – pdf

3 - People Survey 2025 – (Provisional) Final Response Rate – pdf

4 - SG core People Survey – Survey closes at 6pm on Tuesday, 21 October 2025-pdf

5 - RE: People Survey 2025: 23 Sept - 21 Oct: Response Rates – pdf

6 - People Survey results 2025; under embargo -pdf

6A – People Survey 2025 full export – pdf

6B – 2025 heatmaps by grade – pdf

6C – 2025 ready reckoner – overview of PD headlines by DG 2025 - pdf

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FOI 202600501998 - Information Released - Annex

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