Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Senior Civil Servants
(asked on 23rd November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many senior civil servants employed by his 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 SCS staff employed by the department by NUTS1 region is shown below:
31 Mar 2019 | 31 Mar 2020 | 31 Mar 2021 | 30 Sept 2021 | |
London | 124 | 120 | 128 | 140 |
South East | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
East of England | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
East Midlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Midlands | 6 | 6 | 8 | 9 |
Yorkshire & Humber | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
North East | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
North West | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
South West | 10 | 17 | 15 | 14 |
Wales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Scotland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Home | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
Grand Total | 165 | 168 | 180 | 195 |
This data aligns with the data published under the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES) which all government departments provide. This annual data is as at 31 March each year and provides the official headline National Statistics on the size, shape and structure of the Civil Service. The data for 30 September also aligns to ACSES.
We have also shown in the above table the number of home-based SCS staff.
ACSES data is available from Gov.UK and the links for each year are shown below:
2019 – https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2019
2020 – https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2020
2021 - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2021