§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will make a statement on the secondment policy in his Department. [110672]
§ Ms Beverley HughesThe Department has a long history of seconding staff to organisations outside the civil service and of taking inward secondees. There have been secondments with the wider public sector, the private sector and the voluntary sector. The Department intends to build on these links as part of the Modernising Government initiative on bringing in talent and creating a more open civil service.