Ministry of Justice: Senior Civil Servants
(asked on 23rd November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, 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.
Data for the number of civils servants (headcount) employed by the Ministry of Justice by NUTS1 UK region as at 31st March 2019, 31st March 2020, 31st March 2021 and 30th 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) SCS payroll staff in post by NUTS1 region | ||||||
| 31-Mar-19 | 31-Mar-20 | 31-Mar-21 | 30-Sep-21 | ||
North East | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | ||
North West | 10 | 13 | 13 | 12 | ||
Yorkshire and the Humber | 11 | 12 | 12 | 8 | ||
East Midlands | 10 | 10 | 14 | 11 | ||
West Midlands | 13 | 14 | 16 | 17 | ||
East of England | 5 | 5 | 9 | 12 | ||
London | 217 | 238 | 222 | 221 | ||
South East | 9 | 9 | 13 | 12 | ||
South West | 8 | 9 | 9 | 6 | ||
Wales | 4 | 7 | 13 | 14 | ||
Scotland | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||
Northern Ireland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Unknown | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Total | 294 | 323 | 331 | 323 | ||
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.
This includes staff who are on TRA (Temporary Responsibility Allowance) to SCS.