Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many former prisoners have been employed by his Department in each of the last five years.

All HM Treasury employees, contractors and agency staff are subject to National Security vetting and are asked to disclose any criminal convictions which they may have, including spent, in accordance with the Rehabilitation of offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975, and the Rehabilitation of offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (Exceptions) Order 1979, and spent convictions may be taken into account where National Security is concerned.

It is the Treasury's policy for reasons of confidentiality not to release full details relating to numbers of staff fewer than five, where to do so might lead to the identification of individual cases.