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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many of his Department's staff had a pay increase (a) above, (b) at and (c) less than one per cent in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was formed as part of the machinery of government changes in July 2017, by merging parts of BIS and parts of DECC.

The BEIS 2017 pay award has not yet been agreed, so details of staff pay increases are not available for this year.

It is also not possible to provide accurate information for pay increases for staff (a) above, (b) at and (c) less than one per cent for each of the former departments other than at disproportionate costs. This is because this will require a number of reports to be generated and checked in both former departments for staff at both Senior Civil Service level and below in relation to both the 2015 and 2016 pay awards.