PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Temporary Employment (12 December 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many non-payroll staff are employed by his Department; and how many such staff were employed by the former Department for (a) Business, Innovation and Skills and (b) Energy and Climate Change in the last year for which information is available.

Asked by:
Clive Lewis (Labour)

At the end of October 2016, there were 186 non payroll staff working in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

As at 31 March 2016 the number of non-payroll staff working in the former Department for (a) Business, Innovation and Skills and (b) Energy and Climate Change, is shown in the table below.

Department	Number of non payroll staff
Business, Innovation and Skills	45
Energy and Climate Change	67

Answered by:
Margot James (Conservative)
19 December 2016