Department for Work and Pensions: Senior Civil Servants

(asked on 23rd November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 1st December 2021

The figures below show substantive paid SCS as at the labelled dates by region shown in SiP (staff in Post)

SCS SiP

Region

31st March 2019

31st March 2020

31st March 2021

30th September 2021

North East

20

30

30

30

North West

30

30

40

30

Yorkshire and Humber

40

40

40

40

East Midlands

..

..

..

..

West Midlands

..

..

..

..

East of England

0

0

0

0

London

100

110

120

120

South East

..

..

..

..

South West

..

..

..

..

Wales

..

..

..

..

Scotland

10

10

..

10

Northern Ireland

0

0

0

0

Not Reported

..

..

10

10

All Employees

210

210

240

250

1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten, and cells containing between one and five employees are represented by '..'.

2. Figures relate to paid employees only and are shown in staff in post (SiP)

3. Numbers may not sum due to rounding to the nearest 10

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