Department for International Trade: Staff
(asked on 16th May 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many employees of her Department have been based in each African nation, in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
Department for International Trade (DIT) had 86 staff based in Africa in 2018, 84 staff in 2019, 102 staff in 2020, 123 staff in 2021 and 122 staff in 2022. The breakdown by each African nation is presented in the table below.
| DIT Overseas Staff | ||||
African Country | 31 March 2018 | 31 March 2019 | 31 March 2020 | 31 March 2021 | 31 March 2022 |
Algeria | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Angola | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Cameroon | 0 | 0 | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Cote d'Ivoire | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Egypt | 10 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 |
Ethiopia | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 6 | 6 |
Ghana | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 6 | 7 |
Guinea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 or less | 0 |
Kenya | 5 or less | 5 or less | 7 | 13 | 11 |
Libya | 0 | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Mauritania | 0 | 0 | 5 or less | 5 or less | 0 |
Mauritius | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Morocco | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 9 |
Mozambique | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Nigeria | 16 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 12 |
Rwanda | 0 | 0 | 5 or less | 5 or less | 0 |
Senegal | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
South Africa | 19 | 22 | 27 | 32 | 31 |
Sudan | 0 | 0 | 5 or less | 0 | 5 or less |
Tanzania | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Tunisia | 6 | 8 | 7 | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Uganda | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Zambia | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Zimbabwe | 0 | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less | 5 or less |
Grand total | 86 | 84 | 102 | 123 | 122 |
These figures are as of 31 March each year and include both UK based overseas staff (Civil Servants) and country based overseas staff who work on Department for International Trade objectives but are not Civil Servants.
These figures do not include UK Export Finance staff, Trade Remedies Authority Staff, those on Loan from other government departments who remain on their home departments payroll, contractors, military staff, people on secondment from other organisations, those who are on loan or secondment out of DIT, or on unpaid special leave or career break.