Department of Defence

1. The number of former private secretaries (appointed before 1 February 2012) in your department currently receiving the 50% allowance including a breakdown of the number of former private secretaries to ministers, ministers of state or heads of department; the cost of allowances to these in 2015. 2. The number of former private secretaries in your department appointed after 1 February 2012 and at what percentage level they are receiving an allowance (under the terms of last year's civil service arbitration board decision), and which type of private secretary they were; the cost of allowances to these in 2015. 3. The number of active private secretaries in your department in 2015 broken down by what kind of private secretary they were. 4. The number of private secretaries in your department at present broken down by what kind of private secretary they are.