Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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 Headcount of Senior Civil Servants employed by the Ministry of Defence in each of the NUTS1 regions is detailed in the below table, please note that overall figures are published on the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/governments/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2021
The data for the dates is taken from internal sources using the same methodology and dates as the published data where possible.
| Date | Date | Date | Date |
Government office Region | 31/03/2019 | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 01/09/2021 |
EAST MIDLANDS | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
EASTERN | 14 | 15 | 19 | 20 |
LONDON | 119 | 156 | 167 | 171 |
NORTH WEST | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
SOUTH EAST | 34 | 39 | 47 | 48 |
SOUTH WEST | 31 | 34 | 42 | 46 |
WEST MIDLANDS | 11 | 13 | 8 | 7 |
YORKS and HUMBER | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
WALES | - | - | ~ | ~ |
SCOTLAND | ~ | ~ | 6 | 6 |
N. IRELAND | ~ | - | - | - |
Grand Total | 222 | 270 | 297 | 307 |
Caveats: Where data is 5 or less this has been replaced with ~ where there is zero this has been replaced with -