Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Cabinet Office statistics on Permanent and temporary civil servants by sex, age band and department: 2023, published on 31 October 2023, how many permanent civil servants excluding agencies worked for (a) her Department on 31 March 2020 and (b) its predecessor departments in (i) 2011 and (ii) 2016.

On 31 March 2020 the Department for International Trade had a headcount of 2,300 permanent civil servants, excluding Agencies.

The Department for International Trade was created in July 2016 following the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union. The earliest published headcount was 920 permanent civil servants in December 2016.