To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of civil servants that are (a) at the grade of senior civil servant 2 and (b) on full-time equivalent contracts in his Department are women.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of civil servants on temporary contracts in his Department are women.

I can confirm as of 30 September 2023, 34 percent of Senior Civil Servants on pay band two are women and 35 percent of full-time staff at any grade are women.

Two percent of the total MOD civil service workforce are on non-permanent contracts, of which one percent are women.