Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many non-payroll staff are employed by his Department; and how many such staff were employed by the former Department for (a) Business, Innovation and Skills and (b) Energy and Climate Change in the last year for which information is available.

At the end of October 2016, there were 186 non payroll staff working in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

As at 31 March 2016 the number of non-payroll staff working in the former Department for (a) Business, Innovation and Skills and (b) Energy and Climate Change, is shown in the table below.