§ Mr. Stephen O'BrienTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what proportion of her Department's senior civil servants went on one week's secondment in(a) the private sector and (b) a small or medium-sized enterprise between April 2002 and April 2003. [161148]
§ Ms HewittTo date 85 per cent. of my Department's Senior Civil Servants have either completed or have made firm arrangement to undertake a one week attachment with some having completed more than one. Attachments were undertaken at a wide range of organisations of which approximately 80 per cent. were in the private sector. We have not broken this down between large and small or medium-sized enterprises.
507WI have placed a copy of my Department's publication "Inside Out" in the Libraries of the House. As will be seen most of the case studies included in this are of people going to small or medium-sized enterprises.