Trade Promotion: Staff

(asked on 7th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the turnover rate was for international trade advisers in his Department in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 13th March 2017

The Department for International Trade was created in July 2016, the transfer of functions order established DIT as a corporation sole on 9 November 2016.

The Department does not directly hold this information as the international trade advisers are employed by our Contractors in the English Regions, who have provided the information in the following table.

Year

1st January 2014

1st January 2015

1st January 2016

No. of ITAs in post

270

291

279

No. of ITAs leaving post in year

22

37

49

No. of ITAs starting in post in year

35

36

22

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