Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on how many occasions her Department has made appointments by exception since 2010; and who was appointed for each such post.

Since 1 April 2010, the Department for Education has made 1,722 appointments by exception. The numbers of appointments are set out in the table below:

Of these exceptions, 1,565 were the result of a programme to reform the Department’s Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs) which gave staff the right of transfer into the Department and its new Executive Agencies.