Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding was allocated to the Companies Investigation Branch in each year since 2009-10; and how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by that branch in those years.

The Companies Investigation Branch (CIB) became part of the Insolvency Service in 2006. The name CIB is no longer in use and the work formerly undertaken by CIB is now dealt with by the Insolvency Service Company Investigations Live team.

The Insolvency Service could only supply details of funding of live investigation work for 2009-10 at a disproportionate cost. Direct costs of its live investigation work, excluding any apportionment of overhead costs, are provided below. The Insolvency Service does not keep records of the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff employed in each team during the course of a year. This information could only be produced at a disproportionate cost. However, figures have been provided where available for staff directly employed solely on live investigation work.