Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish the number of Civil Servants operating from Leeds as of 16 March 2022 by (a) pay grade and (b) responsibilities.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
The total number of Civil Servants employed by this Department and operating from Leeds as of 16 March 2022 was 80. This figure will rise to 89 once we confirm and complete the location and workforce data for staff who have recently transferred into the Department from Cabinet Office.
(a) Total number of Civil Servant officials by pay grade:
Leeds headcount by Grade, 16th March 2022 | Count |
Administrative & Executive officers | 7 |
Higher and Senior Executive Officers | 48 |
Grade 7 and Grade 6 officers | 22 |
Senior Civil Servants | 3 |
Grand Total | 80 |
(b) Responsibilities of those Civil Servants operating from Leeds as of 16 March:
The Department’s staff in Leeds perform functions across a wide range of the Department's responsibilities and priorities. Approximately a third of staff are working directly in support of the Department’s Levelling-Up and place-based work. There are also staff from teams whose responsibility is to deliver high-quality, secure and affordable housing, as well as teams responsible for ensuring the country has strong local leadership, high quality public services, and safer and greener buildings. There are also a smaller number of staff from within the Department’s Executive and corporate service delivery teams.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Places for Growth initiative applies to public servants.
Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg
The Government has made it clear that the Civil Service and its public bodies should have a truly national footprint. Places for Growth is working closely with departments and public bodies to relocate 22,000 Civil Service roles from Greater London to locations across the UK. The Government engages with Trade Unions regarding the Government’s overall ambition for Places for Growth.
Departments are responsible for their individual relocation programmes and own the associated business cases, Equality Impact Assessments and engagement with Trades Unions relating to their plans.
The majority of moves will involve roles becoming available through natural turnover, whereby roles identified as suitable for relocation will be advertised in the new location once a vacancy arises.
Places for Growth has an Equality Impact Assessment in place and departments are also responsible for ensuring they carry out, review and scrutinise Equality Impact Assessments for their specific relocation programmes.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many civil servants working in the Levelling Up Taskforce are based in (a) London, (b) the South East of England and (c) outside of London and the South East of England.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
Levelling up is a cross-Government policy. With regard to work on levelling up in my Department specifically, officials from across the Department, which has 22 office locations across the UK, are working on this flagship policy. In March 2020, 23% of the Department’s workforce was outside of London; we now have 32% of our workforce outside of London, an increase of c400 FTE. The Department has also made good progress in opening our second HQ in Wolverhampton in 2021 and so far have over 200 roles in post or in the process of onboarding, including senior officials. Within that, the small Levelling Up Taskforce comprises 30 officials based in London offices and home addresses across the country.
DLUHC Location | DLUHC Full-time equivalent employees |
London | 1929.2 |
Hastings | 15.3 |
Hemel Hempstead | 44.2 |
Cambridge | 29.3 |
Leeds | 75.0 |
Manchester | 62.9 |
Truro | 13.6 |
Nottingham | 49.5 |
Birmingham | 117.9 |
Birkenhead | 46.2 |
Plymouth | 19.6 |
Warrington | 53.0 |
Bristol | 88.3 |
Sheffield | 28.2 |
Newcastle | 62.1 |
Wolverhampton | 129.1 |
Exeter | 20.0 |
Edinburgh | 16.5 |
Darlington | 13.8 |
Cardiff | 12.0 |
Northern Ireland | 7.0 |
Other* | 172.1 |
Home workers | 7.0 |
Grand Total | 3011.8 |
* The data in the table includes a figure of 172.1 for ‘Other’ which is predominantly made up of staff who have very recently transferred into the Department from Cabinet Office as a result of a Machinery of Government change. We are currently in the process of working through and confirming the locations for these individuals.
Asked by: Robert Largan (Conservative - High Peak)
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.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
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.
Asked by: Robert Largan (Conservative - High Peak)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civil servants employed by his Department were based in each of the 12 NUTS1 UK regions on (a) 1 March 2021, (b) 1 June 2021 and (c) 1 September 2021.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Data for the number of civils servants employed by the Ministry of Justice by NUTS1 UK region as at 31 March 2021 are available at the following website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2021
Data for the number of civils servants (headcount) employed by the Ministry of Justice by NUTS1 UK region as at 1 June 2021 and 1 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) payroll staff in post by NUTS1 region
| 30-Jun-21 | 30-Sep-21 |
North East | 4,902 | 4,953 |
North West | 10,703 | 10,733 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 9,250 | 9,341 |
East Midlands | 7,601 | 7,644 |
West Midlands | 9,713 | 9,787 |
East of England | 7,555 | 7,509 |
London | 16,002 | 15,956 |
South East | 10,576 | 10,578 |
South West | 5,762 | 5,724 |
Wales | 4,371 | 4,342 |
Scotland | 575 | 588 |
Northern Ireland | 0 | 0 |
Unknown | 41 | 78 |
Total | 87,051 | 87,233 |
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
Asked by: Robert Largan (Conservative - High Peak)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many civil servants employed by his Department were based in each of the 12 NUTS1 UK regions on (a) 1 March 2021, (b) 1 June 2021 and (c) 1 September 2021.
Answered by Simon Hart - Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip)
The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales has offices in Cardiff and London. The workforce split across each location on the dates requested is:
1 March 2021 | Cardiff 21 | London 26 |
1 June 2021 | Cardiff 19 | London 27 |
1 September 2021 | Cardiff 16 | London 24 |
Asked by: Robert Largan (Conservative - High Peak)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many civil servants employed by her Department were based in each of the 12 NUTS1 UK regions on (a) 1 March 2021, (b) 1 June 2021 and (c) 1 September 2021.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The number of 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 | 3 | 9 |
Scotland | 7 | 9 | 18 |
Northern Ireland | 2 | 2 | 3 |
North East England | 5 | 9 | 14 |
North West England | 45 | 68 | 88 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 3 | 3 | 7 |
East Midlands | 0 | 3 | 7 |
West Midlands | 0 | 6 | 7 |
East of England | 0 | 0 | 0 |
London | 1713 | 1708 | 1755 |
South East England | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South West England | 3 | 6 | 12 |
We plan to further increase our presence across some of these regions by 2025;
North West; up to 385 roles by 2025 to support our sectors.
North East; up to 191 roles by 2025 to support the Economic Campus.
Northern Ireland; up to 10 roles by 2025 to support all nations of the Union - we plan to maintain an equal presence in Wales and Scotland also.
We also plan to develop a smaller presence in the East Midlands to support the creation of SportPark and our Sport ALBs.
We plan to maintain a London presence, aiming to have no more than 50% of the workforce located in London and the South East by 2030, concentrated on operational and location specific business critical delivery.
Asked by: John McDonnell (Labour - Hayes and Harlington)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of (a) civil and (b) public servant roles will move out of London under the Places for Growth programme.
Answered by Michael Ellis
As part of the Budget in 2020, the Government made a commitment to relocate 22,000 Civil Service roles from Greater London to locations across the UK by 2030, with commitments from departments and public bodies to relocate up to 15,000 by 2025. The Places for Growth Portfolio is at the heart of delivering this agenda working with departments and public bodies to ensure local voices are taken into account when making policy. As of 31st March 2021 there were 101,930 civil servants in London which represents 21% of the total.
The Government has made it clear that the Civil Service and its public bodies should have a truly national footprint. Whilst the majority of public bodies are already fairly regionally/nationally dispersed, those with a presence in London are still a key part of our Places for Growth work.
Asked by: Fleur Anderson (Labour - Putney)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's definition is of a non-frontline civil servant; and how the existing level of non-frontline civil servants compares to the pre-covid outbreak level of non-frontline civil servants in 2019-20.
Answered by Simon Clarke
The Department’s definition is consistent with the Civil Service Statistics publication. We define non-frontline to include, for example, policy, tax, project delivery, finance, HR, communications and analysis.
We think it is right that we continue to invest in frontline services growth, such as prison staff, which improves public service delivery. There has also been reasonable growth in policy and corporate staff in response to EU Exit and Covid pressures. However, as demand starts to abate, we must ensure resourcing does not exceed requirements to deliver value for money and make sure the Civil Service is in line with our overall approach to efficiency.
Departments publish their planned Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) figures in their Outcome Delivery Plans (ODPs). To support greater transparency for how public money is spent, departments also provide a breakdown of these FTEs by priority outcome or department. ODPs will be revised in Spring 2022 and include FTE figures for the SR21 settlement period.
Civil Service Statistics presents detailed information on the UK Civil Service workforce, including on pay, diversity and location. It is led by the Cabinet Office and will next report over the financial year concluding 31st March 2022. Civil Service Statistics: 2022 will be available on the GOV.UK website in the Summer of 2022.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) Treasury and (b) non-Treasury civil servants were physically present and working in the Economic Campus in Darlington on (i) Monday, (ii) Tuesday, (iii) Wednesday, (iv) Thursday and (v) Friday in the week commencing 11 October 2021 in which the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury was working in that campus.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
All HMT offices are open and available for use by HMT staff. We are not able to share separate breakdowns by location and do not hold information on non-HMT staff use of the Darlington economic campus.