Louise Haigh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-03-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of his Department’s (a) Senior Civil Servants and (b) core policy civil servants are based in London.

Mark Lancaster

In the Ministry of Defence (MOD), 31.3% of Senior Civil Servants and those of an equivalent grade, primarily Senior Medical Specialists, are based in London.

The proportion of MOD civil servants employed in policy roles is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.