To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many civil servants there are on each pay band in his Department. [8942]

This answer covers the Cabinet Office—Office of Public Service—and its executive agencies. Staff below the senior civil service are employed by grade and are shown as such. The figures at 1 July are as follows:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what guidelines exist to ensure that civil servants cannot work on a party political basis. [9071]

Civil servants are under a duty, laid down in the civil service code, to conduct themselves with integrity, impartiality and honesty, and in such a way as to deserve and retain the confidence of Ministers and to be able to establish the same relationship with those whom they may be required to serve in some future Administration. Ministers are also under a duty not to use public resources for party political purposes, to uphold the political impartiality of the civil service, and not to ask civil servants to act in a way that would conflict with the civil service code. In their private lives, civil servants must comply with restrictions on their political activities as set out in the civil service code and the civil service management code.