Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are working on the Communications Capabilities Development Programme by (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants.

The Communications Capabilities Development (CCD) programme closed on 31 March 2018.

The Communications Data and Lawful Intercept (CDLI) Service Partnership has been established across a number of Government Organisations to sustain and develop capabilities on an enduring basis for a wide range of stakeholders.

As of 1 April 2019 85 Civil Servants in the Home Office are directly contributing to the CDLI Service Partnership.