Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of workers employed directly by his Department belonged to a trade union in each of the last five years for which data is available.

The Department holds the following information presented in the table, however information is not held on those employees who chose to pay their trade union subscriptions themselves directly through direct debit to their trade union. Therefore an accurate overall percentage figure cannot be given as it does not include these employees.