Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the civil service payroll in central government was, by department, in (a) 2010, (b) 2015, (c) 2019 and (d) March 2022.

This question was answered on 1st April 2022
Detailed information of staff costs for each departmental group may be found in their respective Annual Reports and Accounts (ARAs). These can be found here: Annual Reports and Accounts for Central Government Departments - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). 2010, 2015, and 2019 data is available but information for 2021-22 will not be available until after the end of the financial year. ARAs are expected to be published from Summer 2022.

Additional pay-bill costs, including employer’s social security and pension costs, severance payments and capitalised staff costs, are the difference between salary bill and pay-bill. For salary bill costs please refer to the answer to PQ UIN 145964.

Aggregate level staff costs for central government are reported in the Whole of Government Accounts, which can be found here: Whole of Government Accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Data for 2010, 2015 and 2019 is available. Data for 2022 will not be available until after 2021-22 departmental Annual Reports and Accounts have been published and the Whole of Government Accounts have been produced.

HM Treasury’s own data collections, at present, do not differentiate between the different types of employment when looking at salary and pay-bill costs. Central government data will therefore include Public Servants, NHS, Armed Forces, and Academies, as well as Civil Servants.