Lucy Powell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lucy Powell on 2014-04-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many jobs have been transferred from the public to the private sector as a result of privatisations or outsourcing by his Department since May 2010.

Hugh Robertson

Comprehensive information on all outsourcing activities and the number of jobs involved is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.