Stephen Timms – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-05-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals have been on the staff of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU in each year since 2010; and what proportion of such staff in each such year were of administrator grade.

Mr David Lidington

The General Secretariat of the Council of the EU does not publish statistics on numbers of permanent staff by nationality. According to our own internal records, the total numbers of UK nationals employed by the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, including secondees, in each year since 2010 are:

2010: 159 (98 at AD)
2011: 100 (50 at AD)
2012: 99 (52 at AD)
2013: 91 (56 at AD)
2014: 87 (55 at AD)
2015: 93 (56 at AD)

The latest figure available is for May 2016 and is 101 (62 at AD).