Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many permanent members of staff have been assigned to the Office for Civil Society in each year since it was established.
The Office for Civil Society has been part of DCMS since the Machinery of Government change on 21st July 2016.
The number of OCS staff on permanent contracts in each of the last two years is as follows:
In addition to those on permanent contracts, as at 31 March 2018, 37 additional staff were employed on a combination of fixed term contracts, loan and secondments.
DCMS does not hold records for before the Machinery of Government transfer.