Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department were employed in non-frontline roles in each of the last five years.

The number of staff in the Home Department employed in non frontline roles for the past 3 years is set out in Table 1. The comparative number of staff in frontline roles is also provided.

The Home Office did not collect this data prior to March 2012. In response on 25th January 2012 (column 283W) to a previous parliamentary question, an estimate was made that 20% (around 5,000) of staff in the Home Department were engaged in non-frontline roles at that time.