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 have been seconded to his Department from (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Accenture, (d) McKinsey & Co, (f) Ernst and Young and (g) Bain & Company since July 2016.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has one member of staff on secondment from (b) Deloitte, whose secondment started prior to July 2016 but is on-going. We had a member of staff on secondment from (a) PWC, which started prior to July 2016 and ended in September 2016. There have been no other staff seconded from PWC, Deloitte, Accenture, McKinsey & Co, Ernst and Young or Bain & Company since July 2016.