Department for International Trade: Staff
(asked on 8th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many staff her Department there have been in (a) in total, (b) based in London, (c) based in regions outside London and (d) based overseas in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
The Department for International Trade employs several staff within the United Kingdom and overseas. Headcount figures for locations and staff numbers are detailed in a table below:
Date | Total staff | Total staff based in London | Total staff based in U.K. regions | Total staff based overseas |
March 2022* | 4,974 | 3,151 | 199 | 1,624 |
April 2021* | 4,813 | 3,114 | 119 | 1,585 |
April 2020 | 4,442 | 2,791 | 197 | 1,461 |
April 2019 | 3,661 | 2,113 | 196 | 1,352 |
April 2018** | 3,779 | 1,941 | 115 | 1,399 |
*These figures do not include the Trade Remedies Authority (TRA), a Reading-based former directorate of DIT who formally became an Arm’s Length Body of DIT in June 2021.
**These figures include U.K. Export Finance (UKEF). Figures after this period exclude UKEF.