To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many jobs formerly undertaken by staff of his Department have been outsourced to external companies in each of the last five years; and to which companies. (314633)

HM Treasury has outsourced in total forty-two posts in the last five years. In 2005 three were transferred to Logica CMG for provision of payroll services. In December 2009 thirty-nine posts were transferred to the Fujitsu Group, thirty-six of which had staff in post at the time.