Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many staff were (a) employed by and (b) seconded to his Department at May (i) 2017 and (ii) 2018.
In April 2017, The Department for Exiting the EU employed 375 people and had 11 individuals seconded into the Department.
In April 2018, the Department employed 629 people and had 15 secondees into the Department.
The Department is unable to provide the data requested for end May 2018 as we have not yet confirmed our May headcount figure. We have however provided end April 2018 data for your records.