Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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 of government and (b) in from outside of the government in each year since 2012.

HM Treasury has no record of any employee being part of the Government Commercial Function.

HM Treasury has no record of any staff being seconded in or out of the department to the Government Commercial Function from 2012.

HMT outsourced its procurement function to Crown Commercial Service in 2013