Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals have been on the staff of the European Parliament in each year since 2010; and what proportion of such staff in each such year were of administrator grade.

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The European Parliament does not publish statistics on numbers of permanent staff by nationality. According to our own internal records, the total numbers of UK nationals employed by the European Parliament, including secondees, in each year since 2010 are:

2010: 290 (149 at AD)
2011: 306 (159 at AD)
2012: 305 (155 at AD)
2013: 291 (152 at AD)
2014: 271 (152 at AD)
2015: 251 (141 at AD)

The latest figure available is for May 2016 and is 257 (146 at AD).