Department for International Development: Brexit

(asked on 6th September 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Preet Kaur Gill Portrait
Preet Kaur Gill
(Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2019 to Question 285408 on Department for International Development: Brexit, how many staff from her Department have been placed in each Government Department to work on preparations for the UK leaving the EU.

Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 8th October 2019

As at 1st October, the Department for International Development has deployed 114 employees on short term loan to other government departments to support projects related to the UK leaving the EU. DFID employees have been deployed to the following departments:

Government Department

Number of DFID Staff Deployed

Department for Exiting the European Union

56

Department for International Trade

25

Cabinet Office

Fewer than 5

Department for Health and Social Care

Fewer than 5

Borders Delivery Group (HMRC)

16

Border’s Supply Chain Impact Group (HMRC)

9

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