HC Deb 07 June 2000 vol 351 c292W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 11 February 2000,Official Report, columns 337–38W, concerning secondments, which of the secondees listed were appointed for a period of 12 months or less. [124822]

Mr. Battle

There were(a) 14 private sector staff who undertook secondments of 12 or less months to my Department between May 1997 and April 1998, (b) 11 between May 1998 and April 1999 and (c) 19 between May 1999 and February 2000.