HC Deb 19 December 2001 vol 377 c367W
Norman Baker

To ask the Prime Minister how many BP employees are on secondment to the Government; for what purposes; and on what terms. [22990]

The Prime Minister

The Government are committed to interchange which promotes the exchange of people and good practice between the Civil Service and other organisations.

Information about individual secondments to Government from outside organisations is not held centrally.

Since May 1997 there have been no inward secondments from BP to the Cabinet Office, including No. 10.