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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the planned efficiency savings from his Department's administrative budget are in each year to 2020.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) administrative budgets to 2020 are subject to finalisation of Machinery of Government (MoG) transfers and the departmental transition, which will conclude by the end of the financial year. BEIS is committed to making savings in line with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Energy and Climate Change Spending Review 2015 settlements. As part of MoG agreements, some of the Spending Review savings targets will be transferred to the Department for Education and Department for International Trade, in line with Cabinet Office MoG Guidance.