Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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.

The Department for Work and Pensions reports its data annually to the Office for National Statistics which is in the public domain and can be found here:

(a) March 2020, table 8

(b) March 2016, table 8

(c) March 2011, table 8