Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many civil servants in her Department are part of the Government Commercial Function; and how many of those civil servants have been seconded(a) outside the Government and (b) in from outside the Government in each year since 2012.

DCMS participates in the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO) scheme, which is part of Cabinet Office.

In the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), one civil servant is currently part of the Government Commercial Organisation. The individual has not been seconded outside Government, as part of GCO, in any year since 2012 and was not seconded in.