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Departmental Secondment

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 8 January 2008

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many secondments of staff were made (a) to and (b) from his Department in each year since 1997; which organisations staff were seconded (i) to and (ii) from; how many staff were seconded in each year; for how long each secondment lasted; and what the cost was of each secondment in each year. (167240)

The information requested is as follows:

(a) Secondments to the Department

Organisations who have seconded employees to the Department since 1997 are:

3i

Accenture

Army

Arthur Anderson

Audit Commission

Australian Department of Finance

Australian Treasury

Bank of England

Bechtel

BP

Brunswick Public Relations

BZW

Camden Council

Christian Action Research and Education

City of London

Clifford Chance

Competition Commission

Coopers/Lybrand

Deloitte Touche

Dilston Management

English Nature

Ernst and Young

Estonian Ministry of Finance

European Commission

Financial Services Authority

Health Development Agency

HM Forces

Housing Corporation

Institute of Financial Services

Institute of Fiscal Studies

IPPR

Irish Finance Ministry

Japanese Finance Ministry

Kent County Council

KPMG

Legal Services Commission

Local Government Management Board

London Borough of Lewisham

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

LSE

Manpower

Midland Bank

Morgan Stanley Asia

National Audit Office

NCVO

New Zealand Reserve Bank

New Zealand Treasury

NHS

NS and I

Pannell Kerr Foster

Partnerships UK

Patent Office

Price Waterhouse Coopers

Quality Business Management

Save the Children

Slaughter and May

Social Market Foundation

Strategic Rail Authority

Tarmac

Thurrock District Council

Tidy Britain Campaign

Tresor

UBS Warburg

Women's Budget Group

Woodrow Wyatt LLP.

The number and average length of each secondment is as follows:

Number of secondments

Average length

1997

14

1 year 7 months

1998

18

1 year 6 months

1999

13

1 year 7 months

2000

12

1 year 6 months

2001

11

1 year 3 months

2002

11

1 year 4 months

2003

14

1 year 7 months

2004

12

1 year 5 months

2005

15

1 year 2 months

2006

23

11 months

(b) Secondments from the Department

The Department has seconded employees to the following organisations:

3i

ABI

Accenture

Astra Zeneca

Azerbaijan Ministry of Finance

Bank of England

Barclays Bank

Barnados

BBC

British Cement Association

British Embassy Washington

Bromley by Bow Centre

Capita RAS

Centrica

Charity Commission

Church House

Cisco Systems

Civil Aviation Authority

CML

Commission for Racial Equality

Commonwealth Secretariat

Croydon Council

Deloitte Touche

École Nationale d'Administration

Ernst and Young

European Bank of Reconstruction and Development

European Banking Federation

European Commission

French Finance Ministry

Gartmore Investment Management plc

German Chancellery

German Finance Ministry

Granada Media

Greater London Authority

Halifax Bank of Scotland

HSBC

IMF

Institute of Fiscal Studies

International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims

International Monetary Fund

Irish Finance Ministry

Japanese Ministry of Finance

Kent County Council

KPMG

Local Government Management Board

London Borough of Brent

London Borough of Camden

London Borough of Croydon

London Borough of Hackney

London Borough of Lewisham

London Development Agency

London School of Economics

Morgan Stanley

National Electricity Code Administrator

National Health Service

New Zealand Treasury

Ocean New Deal for Communities

Ockham Holdings

Oxfam

Pannell Kerr Foster

Personal Investment Authority

RNID

Royal Association of Disability and Rehabilitation

Royal Bank of Scotland

Sanetra

Securities and Investment Board

Social Enterprise Coalition

Social Market Foundation

South West of England Regional Development Agency

Statistics Commission

Strategic Planning Society

Suffolk County Council

Sweden Ministry of Finance

Tesco

The Giving Campaign

The World Bank

UK Business Incubation

UKREP

UN Economics Commission for Europe

Vegan Society

Whitehall and Industry Group

Youth Justice Board.

The number and average length of each secondment is as follows:

Year

Number of secondments

Average length

1997

18

1 year 1 month

1998

11

10 months

1999

27

1 year 8 months

2000

10

1 year 5 months

2001

17

1 year 10 months

2002

12

1 year 10 months

2003

20

1 year 6 months

2004

12

1 year 9 months

2005

10

1 year 6 months

2006

15

1 year 2 months