Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 26 June 2009.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many full-time equivalent staff work in the Cabinet Office's (a) Strategic Horizons Unit and (b) horizon-scanning divisions.
The Strategic Horizons Unit was established in accordance with the Prime Minister's written ministerial statement of
"Alongside (the National Security Secretariat) a horizon scanning unit will be established which will co-ordinate the security-related horizon scanning currently undertaken in a number of Government Departments, with the intention of giving it an overarching framework and a more coherent output."
The unit began operations on
Four full-time equivalent staff work in the Cabinet Office's strategic horizons unit, and the unit is in the process of hiring one further member of staff. The functions of the vacant post are currently being performed by a member of the Intelligence Corps (Volunteers). There is no other Cabinet Office division for which horizon scanning is its main mission.
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No1 person thinks not
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