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Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Personnel Management

Asked by Mr Joshua ReynoldsLiberal DemocratDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled Answered 3 March 2026UIN 115324

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many directors with responsibility for human resources are employed across their department and its executive agencies; and how many of those directors hold professional HR qualifications from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development or equivalent professional bodies.

Answered by Ian Murray

We cannot provide the number of HR Directors or details of their professional qualifications. Disclosing this information would breach the Data Protection Act and risk identifying individual staff members because the data concerns five or fewer employees and relates to individuals other than the data subjects. We do not hold data on the qualifications held by employees of DCMS Arms Length Bodies.

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