To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip Northwood of 2 February 2010, Official Report, column 312W, on civil servants: leave, what the standard allocation of days leave was for a civil servant in the Cabinet Office, in terms of (a) annual leave, (b) bank holidays and (c) privilege days in 2008-09. (318304)

The leave allowance for all civil servants in the Cabinet Office is (a) annual leave 30 days, (b) bank holidays eight days and (c) privilege days two and a half days.