Question follow-through · 36587
Cabinet Office: Secondment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many of his Department's officials have been seconded from (a) the Institute for Economic Affairs, (b) the Policy Exchange, (c) the Adam Smith Institute and (d) Labour Together since July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many of his Department's officials have been seconded from (a) the Institute for Economic Affairs, (b) the Policy Exchange, (c) the Adam Smith Institute and (d) Labour Together since July 2024.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
Secondments are part of a range of ways of bringing talent and experience into the civil service for short periods of time and have been used by successive governments. Secondments are arranged at a business unit level and must follow the processes as set...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Cabinet Office: Hakluyt
11 Mar 2025 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff his Department has seconded from Hakluyt since July 2024.
Cabinet Office: Palantir
13 Mar 2025 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2025 to Question 32929 on Cabinet Office: Palantir, whether his Department has seconded staff from Palantir between 4 July 2024 and 11 March 2025.
Prime Minister: Palantir
28 Apr 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what meetings the Prime Minister has had with Palantir since May 2024.