Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of digital roles within his Department were vacant as of 26 February 2024.

As part of the 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data, all departments made a commitment to reduce their digital and data vacancies to under 10% of total Government Digital and Data headcount by 2025

This is to drive modernisation and digitisation in Government, improving public services for the British people and saving taxpayer money

Overall good progress has been made, with total vacancies now at 15%

The Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework, defining the scope of the digital and data profession, outlines capability standards for roles and skills in the profession. It enables professionals, line managers and hiring managers to have a common understanding of roles and provides a strong foundation for recruitment

In our latest assessment in October 2023, we had 11 vacancies which is 13% of Digital roles in HM Treasury.