Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff worked for the Department for Exiting the European Union in June 2018.

The National Statistics show that at 30 June 2018, there were 560 staff on a headcount basis and 550 staff on an FTE basis working at the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU). There were approximately 110 staff in addition to this figure who remained on the payroll of their home department whilst on loan to DExEU.

This information was published by ONS as part of their Public Sector Employment Statistics release and is available at the following ONS web address:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable.