Question follow-through · 6435

Cabinet Office: Secondment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which organisations have (a) had departmental Civil Servants seconded to them and (b) seconded organisational staff to his Department since July 2024 .

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 3 Jun 2026
Target answer date: 8 Jun 2026
Answer: 26 Jun 2026 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which organisations have (a) had departmental Civil Servants seconded to them and (b) seconded organisational staff to his Department since July 2024 .
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2026
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...

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