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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of civil service posts in his Department was vacant for a week or longer since his Department received its current name; and what the annual turnover rate for civil servants in his Department has been in that period.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 14 March 2017 to Question 66682 regarding the proportion of positions vacant for a week or longer within BEIS:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-03-06/66682/.

This data is not held centrally and would incur disproportionate costs to calculate as each business area manages its vacancies.

As the Department had not existed for 12 months at the time the previous answer was provided, an average turnover rate for the entire period remains unavailable. The current turnover rate for BEIS is 15%.