Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Staff
(asked on 23rd November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many senior civil servants employed by her Department were based in each of the 12 NUTS1 regions of the UK on (a) 1 March 2019, (b) 1 March 2020, (c) 1 March 2021 and (d) 1 September 2021.
The number of Senior Civil Servants employed by DCMS in each of the 12 NUTS1 UK regions has been listed in the table below.
NUTS1 Region | 1 March 2021 | 1 June 2021 | 1 Sept 2021 |
Wales | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Scotland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Northern Ireland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North East England | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North West England | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 1 | 1 | 1 |
East Midlands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Midlands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East of England | 0 | 0 | 0 |
London | 119 | 110 | 120 |
South East England | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South West England | 0 | 0 | 0 |
We plan to further increase our SCS presence across some of these regions by 2025:
North West; up to 20 roles.
North East; up to 9 roles.
Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland; a minimum of 1 role per nation.
We plan to retain at least 50% of our SCS in London for business critical and operational purposes.