Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total payroll cost of her Department's Extended Ministerial Office was; and how many civil servants worked in that office during its existence.
The Secretary of State’s Extended Ministerial Office has a payroll cost of £732,968.45 (including National Insurance and pension contributions) from July 2015 to March 2017.
A total of 9 civil servants have worked in the Extended Ministerial Office during its existence, with no more than 7 in post at any one time.