Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many civil servants in his Department are part of the Government Commercial Function; and how many of those civil servants have been seconded (a) outside Government and (b) in from outside the government in each year since 2012.

Twelve civil servants in the department are professionally part of the Government Commercial Function with two of those being employed by the Government Commercial Organisation. (a) Nil return. (b) Nil return.