Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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.

Currently the Home Office has 175 staff under the Government Commercial Function, of which 31 are directly employed by the Government Commercial Organisation.

There are none seconded.

2016 had 153.3 staff part of the Government Commercial Function.

Prior to that, zero because the Home Office became part of the Government Commercial Function during late 2016 having previously been autonomous.