Department of Health: Location
(asked on 26th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (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.
All the Department’s SCS 1 (Senior Civil Servant) group are classified as deputy directors. Assistant directors do not exist in the Department and team leaders or policy managers are members of the graded structure, below SCS, in the Department.
The numbers and proportions of the total SCS staff who are deputy directors are given immediately below:
Year | Number of SCS who are Deputy Directors | Proportion of all SCS who are Deputy Directors |
2014 | 132 | 78% |
2015 | 139 | 80% |
2016 | 113 | 76% |
The numbers and proportions of deputy directors outside London are presented in the table below:
Year | Number of Deputy Directors outside London | Proportion of all Deputy Directors outside London |
2014 | 35 | 27% |
2015 | 37 | 27% |
2016 | 28 | 25% |
All the above figures for each year were taken as at 31 December of that year, apart from the figures for 2016 which were taken as at 30 September 2016.