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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for International Trade: Staff (12 September 2018)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many staff (a) are employed directly by (b) are seconded to and (c) work under contract to his Department.

Asked by:
Gareth Snell (Labour)

Answer

The number of staff employed in the Department for International Trade (DIT) and UK Export Finance (UKEF) as at 31 August 2018 is shown in the table below.

Core DIT

UKEF

Directly employed by DIT

2852

313

Seconded to DIT

21

-

Working under contract to DIT

309

20

The staff who are directly employed include only those who are on DIT payroll (for domestic staff) or on FCO payroll and then recharged to DIT (for overseas staff).

Those who are seconded are those who are working in DIT and subject to a secondment agreement.

Staff working under contract include contractors and agency staff who have been procured from Government frameworks.

These totals do not include employees working in DIT who are not paid directly through the DIT payroll.

All data above includes those working in the UK and overseas.


Answered by:
Sir George Hollingbery (Conservative)
17 October 2018

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