Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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.
HM Treasury leavers based on financial years and current year to date figures.
| Apr 2014 to Mar 2015 | Apr 2015 to Mar 2016 | Apr 2016 to Mar 2017 | Apr 2017 to Oct 2017 |
Total leavers | 267 | 271 | 327 | 171 |
All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.
Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.
More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. But there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.