PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Civil Service: Recruitment (23 June 2020)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been recruited into the Civil Service in each Government Department in each of the last five years, by (a) ethnicity and (b) gender.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

The data requested for 2015-2018 is published here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics

The data for 2019 is published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2019

Note in all cases the data depends on self-declaration and a significant proportion of civil servants will choose not to do so.

Answered by:
Chloe Smith (Conservative)
1 July 2020