To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments in each year since 1997–98. [108104]
Private Sector Secondments
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the then Minister of State at the FCO (Mr. Battle) to the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) on 29 June 2000, Official Report, column 581W, and to his letter of 5 July 2000 to the hon. Member for Bath which has been placed in the Libraries of the House, which set out a full list of private sector secondments from 1997 to February 2000.
Since then, there have been a further 26 secondments to the Department, and details are set out in the following table.
Secondments and attachments are part of the Interchange Initiative, which promotes the exchange of people and good practice between the civil service and other organisations. Before an Interchange can occur all parties must be satisfied that no conflict of interest arises.
Non-Private Sector Secondments
Under Cabinet Office Interchange procedures, the term secondment relates solely to movement of staff to and from the private sector and other non-civil service organisations.
The table below shows secondments to the FCO from other non-civil service organisations. The FCO does not hold comprehensive records for the year 1997, so the information attached begins from 1998. In addition, some FCO departments and posts organise secondment-type placements directly with relevant organisations. No central records of these exist and they are therefore not included.
Appendix A
Secondments from the private sector to FCO
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March 2000 to April 2003
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Company
| Start date
| End date
|
| Mouchel | March 2000 | October 2000 |
| British Airways | June 2000 | February 2001 |
| Price Waterhouse Coopers | April 2000 | April 2001 |
| Rolls Royce | October 2000 | April 2001 |
| CMC and Admiral | November 2000 | April 2001 |
| Wood Group Engineering Ltd | November 2000 | May 2001 |
| Independent Consultant | November 2000 | August 2001 |
| Wood Group Engineering Ltd | March 2001 | November 2001 |
| Standard Chartered Bank | May 2001 | January 2002 |
| BG plc | June 2001 | February 2002 |
| Anglia Water | January 2002 | March 2002 |
| Teeside College | June 2001 | April 2002 |
| Shell | May 2001 | May 2002 |
| KPMG | June 2000 | June 2001 |
| BP | June 2000 | June 2002 |
| Rolls Royce | April 2001 | June 2002 |
Secondments from the private sector to FCO
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March 2000 to April 2003
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Company
| Start date
| End date
|
| EC Harris | January 2002 | December 2002 |
| Unilever | August 2001 | August 2003 |
| BAe Systems | April 2002 | November 2002 |
| Advantica | June 2002 | November 2002 |
| Ove Arup | October 1999 | October 2003 |
| KGP | May 2002 | December 2005 |
| Michael John Trust | December 2001 | May 2006 |
| AESSeal | June 2002 | November 2002 |
| Thames Water | September 2002 | March 2003 |
| Chamber of British Industry | October 2002 | April 2003 |
Note:
TPUK refers to Tradepartners UK, the trade development arm of British Trade International.
Appendix B
Seconded from non-private sector
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Start
| End
| |
| Metropolitan Police | 1 April 1998 | 23 June 2002 |
| German MFA | 1 June 1998 | 1 July 1999 |
| US State Dept | 1 August 1998 | 1 August 1999 |
| German MFA | 1 August 1998 | 1 July 1999 |
| National Air Traffic Systems | 1 October 1998 | 1 July 2001 |
| Financial Services Authority | 1 January 1999 | 31 July 2001 |
| Ecole National d'Amin (ENA) | 1 January 1999 | 7 January 1999 |
| French MFA | 1 February 1999 | 1 July 1999 |
| New Zealand MFA | 1 April 1999 | 1 July 1999 |
| German MFA | 1 August 1999 | 1 June 2000 |
| US State Department | 1 August 1999 | 1 August 2000 |
| ENA | 1 August 1999 | 1 January 2000 |
| Metropolitan Police | 1 August 1999 | 6 November 2000 |
| Save the Children | 1 September 1999 | 2 July 2001 |
| Canadian MFA | 1 September 1999 | 1 September 2000 |
| German MFA | 1 September 1999 | 8 December 2000 |
| French MFA | 1 September 1999 | 15 August 2001 |
| National Institute of EC and Social Research | 1 September 1999 | 1 September 2003 |
| House of Commons | 1 September 1999 | 1 September 2001 |
| World Wildlife Fund | 1 December 1999 | 30 November 2002 |
| ENA | 1 January 2000 | 1 July 2000 |
| NGO: Interights | 9 January 2000 | 9 January 2001 |
| Brazilian MFA | 21 June 2000 | 8 November 2000 |
| German MFA | 26 June 2000 | 27 May 2001 |
| Czech MFA | 1 December 2000 | 1 December 2001 |
| US State Department | 1 December 2000 | 1 December 2001 |
| NGO: Asian Family Counselling | 1 January 2001 | 1 January 2004 |
| Metropolitan Police | 1 May 2001 | 1 July 2004 |
| ENA | 1 July 2001 | 15 January 2002 |
| US State Department | 30 July 2001 | 30 July 2002 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 10 October 2001 | 15 October 2003 |
| BBSRC (Research Council) | 22 October 2001 | 19 October 2002 |
| ENA | 21 January 2002 | 21 January 2003 |
| New Zeland MFA | 13 May 2002 | 30 August 2002 |
| City of London Police | 1 June 2002 | 1 June 2004 |
| German MFA | 17 July 2002 | 17 July 2003 |
| Sport England | 1 August 2002 | 1 August 2003 |
| German MFA | 12 August 2002 | 12 August 2003 |
| French MFA | 2 September 2002 | 1 September 2003 |
| BBSRC (Research Council) | 20 December 2002 | 1 November 2005 |
| Lord Chancellor's Dept | 10 February 2003 | 10 August 2003 |
Notes:
The FCO grading system equates as follows:
SMS = Senior Civil Service
D7 = Home Civil Service 6
D6 = Home Civil Service 7
C5 = Senior Executive Officer
C4 = Higher Executive Officer
B3 = Executive Officer