Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the corrected Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 206251, how many civil servants in his Department were working part or full-time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (a) June 2016 and (b) December 2018.

The Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) is a continually evolving portfolio of the government's most complex and high-risk projects. In June 2016, the Ministry of Defence was working on 33 projects which are part of the GMPP, and for December 2018 this figure was 35.

There will have been a number of civil servants working on these projects, either directly or indirectly, at any one time. This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.