Question follow-through · 73200
10 Downing Street: Secondment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2025 to Question 32929 on Cabinet Office: Palantir, which non-civil service organisations have seconded staff to the Downing Street business unit since July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 25 Sept 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2025 to Question 32929 on Cabinet Office: Palantir, which non-civil service organisations have seconded staff to the Downing Street business unit since July 2024.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Sept 2025
Answer published
There have been no secondments from non-Civil Service organisations to Downing Street since July 2024.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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