Ministry of Justice: Staff
(asked on 19th November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civil servants employed by his Department were based in each of the 12 NUTS1 UK regions on (a) 1 March 2021, (b) 1 June 2021 and (c) 1 September 2021.
Data for the number of civils servants employed by the Ministry of Justice by NUTS1 UK region as at 31 March 2021 are available at the following website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2021
Data for the number of civils servants (headcount) employed by the Ministry of Justice by NUTS1 UK region as at 1 June 2021 and 1 September 2021 is provided in Table 1 below.
To align with published data an end of month position has been provided.
Table 1 - Ministry of Justice (including executive agency) payroll staff in post by NUTS1 region
| 30-Jun-21 | 30-Sep-21 |
North East | 4,902 | 4,953 |
North West | 10,703 | 10,733 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 9,250 | 9,341 |
East Midlands | 7,601 | 7,644 |
West Midlands | 9,713 | 9,787 |
East of England | 7,555 | 7,509 |
London | 16,002 | 15,956 |
South East | 10,576 | 10,578 |
South West | 5,762 | 5,724 |
Wales | 4,371 | 4,342 |
Scotland | 575 | 588 |
Northern Ireland | 0 | 0 |
Unknown | 41 | 78 |
Total | 87,051 | 87,233 |
Staff are assigned to a NUTS 1 region based on their HR Location Postcode in the department's HR database.
Those with an Unknown region have either a blank or invalid HR Location Postcode in the department's HR database