Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants in his Department are part of the Government Commercial Function; and how many of those civil servants have been seconded (a) outside the Government and (b) in from outside the Government in each year since 2012.

DWP participates in the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO) scheme.

32 Civil Servants have transferred to the GCO from DWP. No one that has transferred onto the GCO has been seconded outside the Government, or have come in on a secondment.