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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of people employed by his Department are from other EU countries.

Like all Government Departments, BEIS is bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules. Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment as part of pre-employment checks but there is no requirement to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose. Holding this information then is not mandatory and as a result is not available for the whole BEIS workforce.