Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of appointment of Regional Department for Education Directors.

Regional Directors (RDs) are Senior Civil Servants who act on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education and are held to account by the Director General for Regions Group. They work locally across children’s social care, special educational needs and disabilities, schools and area based programmes to improve outcomes for children, families and pupils.

Recruitment to RD posts is managed by the Department’s existing internal recruitment teams. There is no additional cost to the public purse from their appointments. The salaries of RDs can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disclosure-of-scs-posts-and-salary-information.