Civil Servants

(asked on 19th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants were employed in each (a) Government department and (b) other public sector bodies by (i) head count and (ii) full time equivalent in each year since 1997.


Answered by
John Glen Portrait
John Glen
Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
This question was answered on 12th January 2024

Civil Service employment on both a headcount and full-time equivalent basis by government departments and their executive agencies and Crown NDPBs has been published on a quarterly basis since 2005 by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of Public Sector Employment Statistics. The ONS statistics are our preferred headline measure for overall Civil Service and departmental employment. Departmental information back to 2005 can be accessed from the following ONS releases:

2011 to 2023

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable

2010

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100910182617mp_/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/Table6AllDepts.xls

2009

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20090904133714mp_/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/Table6AllDepts.xls

2008

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20080620171700mp_/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/Table6AllDepts.xls

2007

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20070705132738mp_/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/Table6AllDepts.xls

2006

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20070202114523/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/pse0906.pdf

2005

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20090104164723mp_/http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/documents/xls/statistics/qpses/pses_q1_2005_revised_jan06.xls

Information on Civil Service employment, on both a headcount and full-time equivalent basis by government department and their executive agencies and Crown NDPBs, is also available and published annually by Cabinet Office as part of Civil Service Statistics and can be accessed from the webpages below:

2006 to 2023 https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics

1970 to 2005 https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20110422215349/http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/resources/stats-archive/archived-reports.aspx

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