Department for Education: Staff

(asked on 20th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff were employed in his Department on (a) 20 December 2018 and (b) 23 June 2016.


Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 9th January 2019

Staffing data are produced for the department monthly. The table below shows the number of staff employed in the department at the end of November 2018 and at the end of June 2016:

Date

Headcount

Full-time equivalent

a) November 2018

6308

6074.8

b) June 2016

3531

3395.6

During this period, there have been Machinery of Government changes. This included the department taking responsibility for higher and further education and for the Skills Funding Agency, which merged with the Education Funding Agency to create the Education and Skills Funding Agency.

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