Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each gender work in his Department.

As at 31 December 2015, of the civil servants employed by the Department 1,180 were women and 838 were men. Their full-time equivalent numbers were 1,110 and 822 respectively.

The Office for National Statistics produce annual and quarterly statistics for the whole of the Civil Service. The published figures include a gender distribution and a number of other demographics, for each Government Department and Executive Agency. These can be found at:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pse/civil-service-statistics/index.html