§ Mr. Charles KennedyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the secondments from commercial companies to his Department since 1997. [148405]
§ Ms Beverley HughesSecondments are part of the Interchange Initiative which promotes the exchange of people and good practice between outside organisations and the Civil Service. All sectors of the economy are involved: Voluntary, Education, Health, Public and Private. Interchange is a key component of the reform agenda. The Modernising Government White Paper committed us to increasing interchange, in particular by bringing in more people on secondment and sending more of our people out.
The commercial companies that have seconded staff to the Department since 1997 are as follows:
- ABROS
- AMEC Construction Ltd.
- Anchor Trust
- Balfour Beatty
- Bank of Scotland
- Bellway Urban Renewal
- Boots Chemists
- Bovis Europe
- British Gas
- British Telecom
- Building Research Establishment Ltd.
- Buro-Happold Consulting Engineers
452W - Christiani amp; Nielsen
- Civil Aviation Authority
- Crime Concern
- Crown House Engineering
- The Church of England
- D. A. Dawson amp; Associates
- Development Trust Association
- Digital Futures
- Drake and Scull Engineering Ltd.
- EHF NHS Trust
- English Nature
- Geoffrey Reid Associates
- Halcrow Group
- Hider
- Institute Of Fiscal Studies
- IPPR
- Japanese Construction Industry
- KPMG
- Kvaerner Cementation Foundations
- Kvaerner Construction
- London Transport
- Look Ahead Housing and Care
- Marks and Spencer
- National Grid
- National Housing Corporation
- OPM
- OVE Arup
- Robert Gordon University
- Rothschilds
- Safe in the City
- Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd.
- Unilever
- Waste Watch
- Waters Ltd.
- Wates Construction Ltd.