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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many staff are seconded to his Department; and from where those staff have been seconded.

As of the end of November, BEIS has 21 staff seconded in from other organisations.

The seconding organisations into BEIS are shown below:

Research Councils UK

NHS Trust Development Authority

Wellcome Trust

University of Birmingham

University of Sheffield

Liverpool University

HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England)

City of Westminster

Irish Government

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (German Government)

Northern Gas Networks

BP UK Ltd

Shell

UKPIA

Ernst and Young LLP

Jacobs

VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas)

The Crown Estate

CTSI (Chartered Trading Standards Institute).