Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many former hon. Members hold (a) paid and (b) unpaid roles within her Department as of 17 July 2018.

We do not hold a central record of all employees, either paid or unpaid, who have previously been Members of Parliament. As of the 17^th July, we had 4140 individuals undertaking roles for DFID. A manual check on hard copy files would be required, which would take a significant and disproportionate amount of time.