§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the names of staff who have been seconded to her Department660W from the private sector since May 1997, indicating (a) the names of the organisation from which each has come, (b) their responsibilities and civil service grades within her Department, (c) the organisation responsible for 661W paying their salary and (d) the start and end dates of their secondment. [35838]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 12 February 2002]: Due to confidentiality I am not able to release the names of the individuals that have been seconded to the Department. Two members of staff have been seconded from the private sector, one from July to December 1999, the other from September 2001 to May 2002. Both were seconded from the BBC at approximately grade seven level and paid by the BBC.