Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Parent_department

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Status Year Sexual_orientation Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments 7245 6810 44190 48080
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office 5520 5380 47120 40600
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Chancellor’s other departments 305 295 59810 51150
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Charity Commission 245 230 34960 29160
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Competition and Markets Authority 700 675 60890 56630
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 9775 9375 42500 40040
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 1490 1465 47390 51730
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Department for Education 6315 6085 43580 40230
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 8275 7885 36880 33090
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Department for International Trade 1740 1715 47330 44030
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 2970 2860 45750 42130
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Department for Transport 10435 9780 34350 29460
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Department for Work and Pensions 64140 58070 28760 27570
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Department of Health and Social Care 6825 6425 43910 40060
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Estyn 95 90 59530 75480
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Food Standards Agency 1025 1000 38430 37350
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 5760 5620 47820 43300
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight HM Land Registry 3965 3605 32240 27130
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight HM Revenue and Customs 41800 38960 34750 33080
In post 2022 Heterosexual / straight HM Treasury 2090 2030 48280 49500
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Notes: Summary figures are suppressed when information relates to less than 5 civil servants for FTE or Headcount, and less than 10 civil servants for median and mean salary (shown as [c]). Zero responses and salaries for less than 30 civil servants have been suppressed for GPDR special category data. FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5, or £10 as appropriate.

Data source: All figures are aggregated from the Cabinet Office Annual Civil Service Employment Survey collection.

Version: Generated on 2023-02-14, with GIT 71a76ea.

Data column Description
Status Employment status of the civil servants.
In post - includes staff that were in post on the reference date (31 March).
New entrant CS - includes new entrants to the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March).
Leaver CS - includes leavers from the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March). This includes employees who have an Unknown leaving cause.
Leaver Dept. - includes leavers from the department over the year (1 April to 31 March), who did not leave the Civil Service.
Five organisations do not report when their employees first entered the Civil Service and so entrants data for these organisations is not available . These are as follows: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (excl. agencies), Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Services, Defence Electronics and Components Agency, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland. A further three organisations also could not provide entrants data in 2021. These are as follows: Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (excl. agencies) and Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Organisation specific notes on status: In late June 2021 around 7,000 employees from Community Rehabilitation Companies were transferred in from the private sector to HM Prison and Probation Service, counting as entrants. HM Land Registry do not record where their departing employees transfer to and so are unable to identify those that transfer to another Civil Service department.
Year Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
On 30 September 2021, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government changed its name to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Sexual_orientation Self reported sexual orientation.
“Undeclared” accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and “Unknown” accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
Headcount Total number of civil servants (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE Total full-time equivalent (FTE) employment numbers (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups.
Mean_salary Average salary (mean, rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).
Median_salary Median salary (rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).