Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in his Department have worked on the Red Tape Challenge project since its inception; and what the paygrade was of those staff.
The Red Tape Challenge Team was based in the Cabinet Office between April 2011 and December 2016. In January 2017, the function was transferred to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.
For the period from inception and while it was based in Cabinet Office, the headcount by payband were as follows;
Payband Headcount
SCS1 3
Grade 7 6
HEO/SEO 25
EO 2
AO 1
Total 37