Department for International Trade: Staff

(asked on 28th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many of his Department's staff by (a) sector focus and (b) country focus are (i) UK-based and (ii) based overseas.


Answered by
Mark Garnier Portrait
Mark Garnier
Shadow Economic Secretary (Treasury)
This question was answered on 8th March 2017

The number of staff employed by the Department for International Trade working on sector related activity either in the UK or within a country overseas is shown in the table below. The department has structured its organisation on a sectorial basis and has people based in in 109 Countries (including the UK) across 13 different sectors.

Sector Related Activity

Staff based in the UK

389

Staff based overseas

1250

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