Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials of her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies have the word trade in their job title.

From departmental records, the present number of officials with the word trade in their job title is currently 9; with further recruitment on-going. This resource is complemented by officials in sector teams working on a range of sector-specific trade-related issues across the department.

The information requested on our agencies is not held centrally.