Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many civil servants worked in the Export Control Joint Unit in (a) 2017, (b) 2018, (c) 2019, (d) 2020, (e) 2021 and (f) 2022.
The total numbers of civil servants working in the Export Control Joint Unit within my department for each year since 2017 is set out in the table below.
Year Number
2017 93
2018 80
2019 80
2020 84
2021 93
2022 91
The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) supply staff for ECJU also. The Hon. Lady will need to seek information from those departments directly.