Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many National Compliance and Enforcement Service staff have been employed in each year since 2010.
The number of full time equivalent staff (FTE) working in the National Compliance and Enforcement Service at the end of March for each year since 2012 is as follows:
2012 1,706
2013 1,770
2014 1,640
2015 1,516
2016 1,470
2017 1,497
The FTE figures include both agency and permanent staff. We do not hold any figures prior to March 2012 as National Compliance and Enforcement Service was not separated from the Court FTE figures.