Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2019 to Question 1565, how many of those 17,000 Digital, Data and Technology professionals are (a) directly employed civil servants and (b) contingent workers.

Of the 15,508 DDaT professionals we have validated, so far, as part of the recent DDaT workforce commission (July 2019), there are approximately 9,955 civil servants, 3,469 contingent workers and 2,084 professionals with an unreported resource type.