Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 9 March 2022 to Question 132386 on civil service staff networks, what information he holds on (a) FTE staff time and (b) budgets available to recognised staff groups within his Department in each of the last three years.
Networks that are recognised in the Department’s network partnership agreement are allocated 0.1FTE of their time to support these networks. All other staff support networks on a voluntary basis.