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Written Question
Department for Transport: Staff
Monday 18th January 2016

Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people of each gender work in his Department.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The table below provides headcount figures for permanent staff in the Department for Transport including its Executive Agencies at 31 December 2015:

DfT Organisation

Men

Women

Total

DfT Centre

1,248

774

2,022

DVLA

2,416

3,722

6,138

DVSA

3,172

1,300

4,472

MCA

681

347

1,028

VCA

112

43

155

TOTAL

7,629

6,186

13,815

Note that in 2009/10 58.7% of the total DfT staff were male compared to 55.2% as at 31 December 2015.


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