Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many civil servants in his Department have been seconded to (a) the Department for Exiting the European Union and (b) the Department for International Trade in each of the last three years.

BEIS does not hold centrally the records of every Department loaned staff have joined. However, according to reports from BEIS’ two Shared Services providers during this period, the total number of BEIS staff loaned out in each year is as follows:

2016 – 47

2017 – 53

2018 – 48

2019 – 27

This data only reflects the loans fully recorded on Shared Services and so may not reflect all loans out of the Department.