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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people working in her Department are on secondment from (a) the petroleum industry (b) EDF, (c) BP, and (d) Shell.

The number of people on secondment working in the Department from:

a) The petroleum industry is one;

b) EDF is none;

c) BP is none; and

d) Shell is one.