Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff including consultants have been hired across Government Departments for work on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in April 2018; and what the total cost of those staff is to date.

A cross-Government team of Civil Servants has been set up in the Cabinet
Office to deliver the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in April 2018. To date,
a total of two staff have been hired as Civil Servants on fixed-term apppointments to join
the rest of the Cabinet Office team.

As is usual for such events, information on costs will be reported after the summit has
concluded.