HC Deb 01 February 2002 vol 379 c576W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many staff in her Department have been seconded to jobs in the(a) private and (b) public sector in each of the last four years. [31781]

Dr. Howells

The information is shown in the table.

Private sector Public sector
1998 4 14
1999 3 16
2000 3 14
2001 2 22

In answering this we have quoted the number of secondments which commenced, were continuing or completed in the given year.