HC Deb 07 July 2003 vol 408 cc597-8W
Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from NGOs, in each case listing(a) from which organisation and (b) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997–98. [108075]

Mr. Paul Murphy

Within the Northern Ireland Office one civilian was on secondment from the Metropolitan police service during 1999 and up to 31 March 2000. Within the Northern Ireland administration there have been a total of seven individuals seconded from NGOs since 1997–98. An analysis of this by year, organisation and dates of secondment is set out in the following table.

Secondments from NGOs to the 11 departments within the

Northern Ireland administration in the period 1997–98 TO

2002–03
Number of secondees Organisation Dates of secondment
1997–98 2 NI Voluntary Trust 1/2/97–31/1/98
NI Citizen's Advice Bureau 12/5/97-current
1998–99 1 NI Audit Office 1/2/99–1/2/02
1999–2000 Nil
2000–01 2 NI Audit Office 1/2/01–31/1/03
NI Audit Office 1/2/01-current
2001–02 Nil
2002–03 2 Omagh Independent Advice Centre 30/09/02-current
NI Citizen's Advice Bureau 3/10/02-current

Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to(a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997–98. [108076]

Mr. Paul Murphy

Since 1997–98, 82 Northern Ireland Office staff and 378 Northern Ireland administration staff have been seconded to the private sector, NGOs or other organisations.

A copy of the analysis of the individual secondments will be placed in the Library.