Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the corrected Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 206251, how many civil servants in his Department were working part or full-time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (a) June 2016 and (b) December 2018.

Records from the IPA for Q1 16/17 (i.e. June 30^th 2016) note 152.2 FTE public sector employees to be working on the following GMPP initiatives at that snapshot date: Commercial Capability Programme, FOXHOUND Programme, GOV UK Verify, Government Hubs Programme, ISSC1, ISSC2, New Property Model.

Records from both the IPA and Cabinet Office Portfolio Office for Q3 18/19 (i.e. December 31^st 2018) note 286.2 FTE public sector employees to be working on the following GMPP initiatives at that snapshot date: Future Services (Pensions), Commercial Capability Programme – Expansion, Common Technology Services, Government as a Platform, Verify, Government Property Hubs Programme, Foxhound, New Property Model Programme