PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for International Trade: Overseas Workers (19 November 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2018 to Question 189652 on Department for International Trade: Staff, how many of his Department's staff were employed in (a) non-EU countries, (b) EU countries, (c) Greece and (d) Italy in each of the last three years.

Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)

The number of employees of the Department for International Trade in each of the last three years is shown in the table below.

	31 October 2016	31 October 2017	31 October 2018
a) Non-EU Countries	952	1,106	1,071
b) EU Countries	1,236	1,881	2,156
c) Greece	5	5	4
d) Italy	21	25	22

The table above includes all DIT employees who are paid via DIT payroll, UKEF employees paid via the UKEF payroll and staff who are working overseas and paid via the FCO payroll and then recharged to DIT at each of the reference dates.

The number of employees included in the totals for EU Countries includes those based in the UK, Greece and Italy.

Answered by:
Sir George Hollingbery (Conservative)
22 November 2018