Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many people undertook an unpaid work placement in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.

The Department for International Trade was created in July 2016 and became a legal employer as of 9 November 2016. We do not hold information on how many people undertook an unpaid work placement in the Department and to generate this information would incur disproportionate cost.

UK Export Finance has had no unpaid work placements in each of the last five years.