Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page nine of the Office for National Statistics report on public sector employment data, published on 15 March 2017, for what reasons around 70 civil servants transferred from his Department to the Cabinet Office on 1 April 2016; and what positions those civil servants held in his Department prior to their transfer.

69 staff at Infrastructure UK transferred to the Cabinet Office when this group merged with the Major Projects Authority to form the Infrastructure and Projects Authority

The breakdown of the number of people in each position at the time of the transfer can be found in the following table: