Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many full-time equivalent employees his Department (a) has employed in each financial year since 2009-10 (b) is forecast to employ in each financial year until 2020-21 by departmental directorate.

Due to internal changes and restructuring during the time period in question, there is no comparable data available at departmental directorate level. However, the number of full time equivalent employees in my Department in each year since 2010 was as follows:

2009-10 – 2108.7

2010-11 – 1934.1

2011-12 – 1821.6

2012-13 – 1680.9

2013-14 – 1622.0

2014-15 – 1595.7

2015-16 – 1651.5

2016-17 – 1410.6

2017-18 – 1672.3

We have a forecast figure for 2018-19 of 2002.7 full time equivalent staff but do not have forecast figures for future years at this point in time.