Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many officials his Department employs; and what proportion of those officials worked in the Civil Service prior to July 2016.

As of 25 November, the Department for International Trade had 2709 people working on its agenda, including those deployed overseas. Since 2016 the Department for International Trade (including UK Export Finance) has hired 46 people who had not worked in the civil service previously.