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Written question asked by Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 5 December 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 8 December 2022 (named day). It was answered by Andrew Griffith (Conservative) on Thursday, 8 December 2022 on behalf of the Treasury.


Economics: Policy

Question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the number of staff who have worked on macroeconomic policy and planning in his Department in each of the last five years.

Answer

HM Treasury is the government’s economic and finance ministry, maintaining control over public spending, setting the direction of the UK’s economic policy and working to achieve strong and sustainable economic growth.

HMT takes a flexible and dynamic approach to resourcing in order to meet this objective. As a result, there are a number of officials, across groups, working on macroeconomic policy and planning and total numbers of staff fluctuate within and across years.

The number of paid full time equivalent staff in the Treasury was as follows over the past 5 years.

Date

Number of HMT staff employed

March 2022

2,045

March 2021

1,992

March 2020

1,599

March 2019

1,447

March 2018

1,328


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
102873
Session
2022-23
Subjects
Staff Policy Treasury Economics
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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