Staff numbers are expressed as full-time equivalents (ie 0.5 FTE = 2.5 days per week).
Groups of staff included are:
- all staff loaned or seconded in to the Cabinet Office (regardless of funding arrangement)
- all staff on paid maternity or paternity leave
Groups of staff excluded are:
- all staff in the Joint Intelligence Organisation and the National Security Secretariat
- all contractors, consultants and fee-paid staff
- ministers
- staff on unpaid maternity leave and career break
- staff on loan or secondment out of the Cabinet Office (regardless of funding arrangement)