Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of senior civil service graded posts in his Department classified as (i) deputy director, (ii) assistant director, (iii) team leader and (iv) policy manager have been based outside London in each year since 2014.

Two of my Department's senior civil servants, classified as Deputy Directors, have been based outside London each year since 2014. The proportion of Deputy Directors outside London was 3% in each year since 2014.