Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 7039, on senior civil servants: recruitment, if he will provide those figures by (a) Department, (b) profession, (c) function and (d) grade.

We are currently undertaking a data-cleansing exercise on the relevant source data and
are therefore unable to provide the requested breakdowns at this time due to
disproportionate costs. I will ask officials to write to the Hon member once the information
is available.