Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials were employed in her Department on 1 January (a) 2010 and (b) 2015.

The number of officials working in the Home Office is recorded at the end of each month; therefore the numbers of officials provided in tables 1 and 2 is as on 31 December in 2009 and 2014.

It is important to note as context that Machinery of Government changes have taken place during this period, including 4,639 FTE officials transferring from HMRC to join the Home Office on 1st April 2010 to undertake functions previously carried out by HMRC. Excluding these machinery changes, the Home Office reduced the number of staff by almost 2000 officials by 2014 compared to 2010.