To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on what pay band his Department's chief information officer (CIO) is employed; whether the CIO is employed on a fixed-term or permanent contract; and what the size is of the budget for which the CIO is responsible in the period 2009-10. (307567)

The Department’s chief information officer is in Senior Civil Service Pay Band 1. The post is currently filled by a permanent civil servant on loan to DECC. The CIO’s delegated budget for 2009-10 is £10.961 million.