Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many civil servants of his Department at each grade are allocated to work on the Northern Powerhouse.

The Northern Powerhouse is a cross-governmental project supported by officials in all relevant departments, including DfT, HMT, DCMS, Defra, DCLG, and BEIS. The Cities and Local Growth Unit is a joint BEIS-DCLG team that supports local growth policy, including the Northern Powerhouse. It currently has almost 150 staff based in offices all across the country, including in London, Manchester, Gateshead and Leeds. This includes 1 Director, 9 Deputy-Directors, 8 Grade 6s, 61 Grade 7s, 11 Senior Executive Officers, 35 Higher Executive Officers, 15 Executive and Administrative Officers and 9 Fast Steamers.