Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many permanent civil servants in his Department are staff without assigned posts; and how many are placed in an equivalent (a) people action team, (b) priority movers list, (c) redeployment register, (d) talent pool and (e) skills match hub in the most recent period for which data is available.

The Scotland Office has no permanent civil servants without assigned posts and no staff are placed in the referenced categories.