Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how the number of inquiries from the public being addressed to (1) HM Revenue and Customs, (2) the Home Office, (3) the Ministry of Justice, (4) the Department for Work and Pensions, and (5) the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, has changed over the last decade, and whether the provision of staff to attend to them has changed proportionately.

The information requested is not held centrally.

Detailed information on the staffing and performance of individual Government Departments is contained in their Annual Report and Accounts, copies of which are available in the Library of the House.