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Written question asked by Andrew Gwynne (Labour) on Wednesday, 26 October 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 28 October 2016. It was answered by David Mowat (Conservative) on Thursday, 3 November 2016 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Department of Health: Location

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of senior civil service graded posts in his Department classified as (i) deputy director, (ii) assistant director, (iii) team leader and (iv) policy manager have been based outside London in each year since 2014.

Answer

All the Department’s SCS 1 (Senior Civil Servant) group are classified as deputy directors. Assistant directors do not exist in the Department and team leaders or policy managers are members of the graded structure, below SCS, in the Department.

The numbers and proportions of the total SCS staff who are deputy directors are given immediately below:

Year

Number of SCS who are Deputy Directors

Proportion of all SCS who are Deputy Directors

2014

132

78%

2015

139

80%

2016

113

76%

The numbers and proportions of deputy directors outside London are presented in the table below:

Year

Number of Deputy Directors outside London

Proportion of all Deputy Directors outside London

2014

35

27%

2015

37

27%

2016

28

25%

All the above figures for each year were taken as at 31 December of that year, apart from the figures for 2016 which were taken as at 30 September 2016.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
50401
Session
2016-17
Subjects
Location Senior civil servants Department of Health
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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