Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals were employed at Director level in the European Commission in each year since 2010.

Director level equivalent in the European Commission is classed as officials working at Administrator grade AD14 - AD15. According to statistics published by the European Commission, the numbers of British officials working at these levels in the European Commission since 2010 are as follows:

2010: 70
2011: 55
2012: 59
2013: 49
2014: 50
2015: 51
2016: 59