questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference the 40,755 total headcount figure for permanent civil servants excluding agency workers working for her Department as of 31 March 2023, as detailed in Cabinet Office statistics entitled Permanent and temporary civil servants by sex, age band and department: 2023, published on 31 October 2023, what that figure was on 31 March (a) 2011, (b) 2016 and (c) 2020.
answerText: This information is published annually by the Office of National Statistics, links provided below.(a) March 2020, table 8(b) March 2016, table 8(c) March 2011, table 8
heading: Home Office: Civil Servants