Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many civil servants in his Department are members of trades unions; how much working hours facility time is claimed by each such civil servant; and what the cost of that facility time is to his Department.

The Department does not hold records of the number of staff who are members of a trade union. This is a matter for the trade unions.

The Cabinet Office publishes data relating to Civil Service facility time and the cost of its provision, on a quarterly basis. The latest data is Quarter 4, 2014 and is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time