questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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 worked for his Department on 31 March (a) 2011, (b) 2016 and (c) 2020.
answerText: The Department for Work and Pensions reports its data annually to the Office for National Statistics which is in the public domain and can be found here: (a) March 2020, table 8 (b) March 2016, table 8 (c) March 2011, table 8
heading: Department for Work and Pensions: Civil Servants