§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 1 December to the hon. Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett),Official Report, column 897, if he will detail applications to join defence, security and/or security defence-related companies approved by his Department for employees who had left his Department of its agencies within the last two years.
§ Mr. FreemanI have been asked to reply.
Since my answer of 1 December to the hon. Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett), the following applications from staff in my Department have been approved for employment with defence-related companies. Only one application to join a security company—an Air Vice Marshal to join TNT Express (UK) Ltd—has been approved during the last two years.
Company Rank/Grade Action Information (Management) 1 x Lt. Colonel Aramark plc 1 x Captain BAe plc 1 x Grade 3 BAe Sema Ltd. 1 x Commander RN BMT Defence Services Ltd. 1 x Grade 7 Cray Systems Ltd. 1 x Lt. Colonel Data Sciences (UK) Ltd. 1 x Squadron Leader EDS Scicon Defence Ltd. 1 x HEO 1 x SPTO 1 x PTO 1 x Lt. Commander RN 1 x Major General 1 x Group Captain Hewlett Packard Ltd. 1 x Lt. Commander RN Hiller Parker May and Rowden 1 x HEO IBM (UK) Ltd. 1 x Group Captain M L Douglas Equipment Ltd. 1 x HPTO NPBI 1 x Colonel Olin Ordnance 1 x HPTO Pennine Services 1 x Major Racal Radar Defence Systems Ltd. 1 x Squadron Leader Siemens Plessey Electronic Systems Ltd. 1 x Grade 6