About

Organisation

The Department is small. It is intended to be.

Office of the Permanent Secretary

Accounting officer. Codex custodian. Correspondence with the Minister.

Operations

Continuity inspection. Field attendance. Restoration where reasonably practicable. Manual DET-MANUAL-003.

Institute for Temporal Studies

Working papers, peer review, geometry, historical documents, field reports. Not a university. A departmental institute.

Information and rights

Records, FOI, the Welsh language scheme, the retention schedule.

Estate

Cardiff headquarters. Abercrave field station. Four former regional offices, closed due to budget reductions.

Staff in post at 31 March 2026: 146 full-time equivalent.