Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many members of staff have left his Department since 1 January 2015; and how many of those members of staff were nationals of non-UK EU countries.

The number of direct employees that have left the Department, for any reason, since January 2015 is 930.

The Department collects national identity data from its employees on a voluntary basis. Where staff self-describe their national identity as ‘other’ there is no requirement to provide further detail or evidence of their nationality. As such we are unable to determine the number of non-UK EU nationals that have left the Department during the time in question.

This is lower than the number that left in the last three years of Labour. Perhaps the Department has just become a more fulfilling place to work now we have a Government which faces up to problems, rather than making them worse.