Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil servants work in her Extended Ministerial Office; and what the total payroll cost is of that Office in the 2016-17 financial year.

A revised version of the Ministerial Code was published on 21 December 2016, which removed the provisions for setting up Extended Ministerial Offices (EMOs).

In line with the changes we are disbanding the Secretary of State’s Extended Ministerial Office (EMO), which has until now comprised 6 civil servants, with a payroll cost for the 2016-17 financial year (excluding March 2017) of £458,113.94 (including National Insurance and pension contributions).