Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of (a) the number of officials in her Department involved in recording retained EU legislation for the purposes of the Retained EU Law Dashboard in the latest period for which figures are available and (b) the cost to the public purse of recording that information.

No additional full time staffing resource was required for the completion of this exercise which forms part of the overall project to list Retained EU Law held by this Department. Three officials worked on the exercise in addition to their other duties over a period of four months which in turn fed into the compilation of the dashboard.

There has been no additional non-pay cost to the public purse by creating the dashboard. The process was led by the Cabinet Office, who commissioned Government Departments to find Retained EU Law within their legislation and compile an authoritative account of where Retained EU Law sits on the UK statute book.

The dashboard itself is made by the Government Strategic Management Office and is hosted on Tableau Public, which is a free platform for hosting public dashboards. The dashboard will continue to be updated at no additional cost.