HC Deb 03 March 2004 vol 418 cc997-8W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what secondments(a) PricewaterhouseCoopers, (b) Deloitte & Touche, (c) Ernst & Young and (d) KPMG have made to his Department since 2001; for what (i) periods and (ii) tasks the secondments were made; whether secondments of staff from his Department have been made to those firms; and for what (A) periods and (B) tasks. [156925]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

According to our records, the following secondments have been made into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office:

PricewaterhouseCoopers

  1. (i) One person from 1 April 2000 to 1 April 2001
  2. (ii) Based in Management Consultancy Services in the FCO.
  3. (iii) Deloitte & Touche
  1. (i) No inward secondments
  2. (ii) Ernst & Young
    1. (i) No inward secondments
    2. (ii) KPMG
    1. (i) One person from 1 June 2000–1 June 2001
    2. (ii) Based in the IT Strategy Unit (ITSU), FCO.

Our records show that no officers have been seconded to these companies since 2001.

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