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Question for Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

UIN 41753, tabled on 3 September 2021

Question

Dame Meg Hillier
Labour
Hackney South and Shoreditch
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of the staff of his Department are politically restricted.

Answer

Caroline Dinenage
Conservative
Gosport
Commons

Answered on

8 September 2021

Data is provided in the table below for those Civil servants in “the politically restricted” category. As set out in the Civil Service Management code this is members of the Senior Civil Service and civil servants at levels immediately below the Senior Civil Service, plus members of the administrative and European Fast Stream Development Programmes.

DCMS Grade

Headcount

Proportion of total workforce

Permanent Secretary

1

0.06%

Director General

4

0.22%

Director

28

1.57%

Deputy Director

89

5.01%

Grade 6

201

11.30%

Grade 7

602

33.86%

Fast-streamer (Grade B)

16

0.90%

*This data reflects officially published 2020/21 data submitted to the Cabinet Office Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES) report. Fast-stream numbers include all fast-streamers at DCMS not just those on administrative and European schemes.

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