Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Cabinet Office statistics on Permanent and temporary civil servants by sex, age band and department: 2023, published on 31 October 2023, how many permanent civil servants excluding agencies worked for his Department on 31 March (a) 2011, (b) 2016 and (c) 2020.
Statistics on Civil Service employment by Department and agency are published by the Office for National Statistics on gov.uk at the following link:
Statistics for Defence and its agencies can be found at Table 9 for each quarter.
It is important to note that the structure of Ministry of Defence has changed significantly since 2011, meaning that figures for that year are not directly comparable.