questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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 work
answerText: Statistics on Civil Service employment by Department and agency are published by the Office for National Statistics on gov.uk at the following link:www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremployment...
heading: Ministry of Defence: Civil Servants