The core dept DSIT has 3195 FTE staff (up from 2275 Q1 '25), but the Met Office (2350), Intellectual Property Office (1620), UK Space Agency (315) and BDUK (255), which are executive agencies of DSIT, are included in the overall size of the department.

5/ The government has big intentions to reduce the size of the civil service, which have not been reflected in this data release. This is likely due to the time lag involved in initiatives such as voluntary exit schemes. Stay tuned to see if next quarter’s stats indicate anything different!

4/ The most striking change from the previous quarter is the large proportional increase in the size of DSIT, which has grown by 12.8%. This is due to a transfer of staff from GDS in the Cabinet Office to DSIT, reflective of this MoG change: hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024...

3/ The largest department is still the MoJ with over 90,000 staff, most of whom work outside the ‘core’ department in HM Prison and Probation Service. The smallest department, DCMS, is over 40 times smaller, with 2,125 staff.

2/ The headline statistic is that the CS has grown (again) to an overall FTE size of 516,950 – 3,750 more than this time last year (0.73%) and 480 (0.1%) more than last quarter (Q1 2025).