Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions his Department has made appointments by exception since 2010; and who was appointed for each such post.
As reported in the Civil Service Commissioners Audit report, the number of appointments made by exception since 2010 are as follows:
| Year | Number of exceptions |
| Grade 6 and below | |
| 2010/11 | 220 |
| 2011/12 | No appointments were made by exception during the year within the Department and its agencies, |
| although it is possible that some former Civil Servants (below SCS Level 2) may have | |
| been re-appointed under Exception 5, Re appointment of former Civil Servants | |
| 2012/13 | 31 |
| 2103/14 | 29 |
Information on who was appointed to each post is not held centrally.