Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants employed by her Department were based in each of the 12 NUTS1 UK regions on (a) 1 March 2021, (b) 1 June 2021 and (c) 1 September 2021.

a) As published in the National Statistics and taken from the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey which can be accessed here https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2021, on the 31^st March 2021, DWP had the following headcount in each of the following NUTS1 UK Regions;

1 Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten, and cells containing between one and five employees are represented by '..'.

2 Workplace postcode data is used to derive geographical information.

3. Figures relate to paid employees only and are shown in staff in post (SiP)

4. Numbers may not sum due to rounding to the nearest 10

b/c) Consistent figures are available for the 30^th June 2021 and 30^th September 2021, DWP had the following headcount in each of the following headcount in each of the following NUTS1 UK Regions;

b)

30^th June 2021

c)

30^th September 2021

1 Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten, and cells containing between one and five employees are represented by '..'.

2. Figures relate to paid employees only and are shown in staff in post (SiP)

3. Numbers may not sum due to rounding to the nearest 10