Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 18 December 2007.
Theresa May
Shadow Minister (Women), Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many secondments of staff were made (a) to and (b) from her Department in each year since 1997; which organisations staff were seconded (i) to and (ii) from; how many staff were seconded in each year; for how long each secondment lasted; and what the cost was of each secondment in each year.
Hazel Blears
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee
The table presents the number of inward and outward secondments that began in each complete financial year since the formation of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in May 2002.
| Inward s econdments | Outward s econdments | |
| 2006-07 | 54 | 26 |
| 2005-06 | 30 | 22 |
| 2004-05 | 60 | 26 |
| 2003-04 | 51 | 16 |
Listed are the destinations of outward secondments where these have been recorded centrally. During the period the destination of outward secondees has not been collected centrally on a comprehensive basis. This list represents the partial information that is available.
Recorded Destination Organisations for Outward Secondments
Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway Trust
Bracknell-Forest Council
East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
Firebuy
Government Office London
Judicial Appointments Commission
London and Quadrant Housing Group
Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Madrid
Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand
Partnership for Urban South Hampshire (PUSH)
Prince of Wales Office
Regenter
South West Regional Development Agency
The Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The Scarman Trust
UNESCO Institute of statistics (Canada)
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
Listed next are the origins of inward secondments where this has been recorded centrally. Again, during the period the origin of inward secondees has not been collected centrally on a comprehensive basis. This list represents the partial information that is available.
Recorded Organisations from which Inward secondments have been drawn
Beds and Luton Fire and Rescue Service
Bradford Metropolitan District Council
British Urban Regeneration Association
Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
Bucks and Milton Keynes Fire Authority
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service
Centrepoint
Chief Fire Officers Association
Cleveland Fire and Rescue Service
County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service
Crisis
Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
Devon Fire and Rescue Service
Dorset Fire and Rescue Service
East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service
Essex county Fire and Rescue Service
Gloucester Fire and Rescue Service
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue
Hampshire County Council-National Youth Agency
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Homeless Link
Housing Corporation
Humberside Fire and Rescue Service
Improvement and Development Agency (IDEA)
Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service
Leicester Fire and Rescue Service
London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames
London Civic Forum
London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA)
London Fire and Rescue Service
Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service
Maple Access
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service
Northamptonshire County Council
Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service
Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Priority Estates Project (PEP)
Railtrack
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Stoke-on-Trent Council
Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service
Surrey Fire and Rescue Service
Swindon and Wiltshire Fire Authority
Town and Country Planning Association
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service
Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service
West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service
West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service
Wiltshire and Swindon Fire Authority
The lengths of each secondment that began in each complete financial year since the formation of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in May 2002 are given in the following table. Secondments that have not yet been completed, as at
| Inward Secondment Lengths | Outward Secondment Lengths | |||
| Number | Years | Number | Years | |
| 2006-07 | 29 | ongoing. | 16 | ongoing. |
| 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.3 | |
| 19 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.4 | |
| 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.6 | |
| 3 | 0.6 | 4 | 0.7 | |
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| 1 | 1.1 | |||
| 2005- 0 6 | 17 | ongoing | 2 | ongoing |
| 2 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.2 | |
| 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.3 | |
| 1 | 0.7 | 4 | 0.4 | |
| 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 0.5 | |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 0.7 | |
| 2 | 1.3 | 1 | 0.8 | |
| 1 | 1.4 | 1 | 0.9 | |
| 1 | 1.7 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 1.1 | |
| — | — | 3 | 1.2 | |
| — | — | 1 | 1.3 | |
| — | — | 1 | 1.5 | |
| — | — | 1 | 1.8 | |
| — | — | 1 | 2.2 | |
| 2004-05 | 12 | ongoing | 1 | ongoing |
| 5 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.3 | |
| 3 | 0.5 | 2 | 0.4 | |
| 2 | 0.6 | 2 | 0.5 | |
| 6 | 0.7 | 2 | 0.7 | |
| 1 | 0.8 | 5 | 1 | |
| 6 | 1 | 2 | 1.1 | |
| 1 | 1.1 | 1 | 1.2 | |
| 2 | 1.2 | 1 | 1.3 | |
| 4 | 1.3 | 1 | 1.5 | |
| 3 | 1.5 | 2 | 1.6 | |
| 2 | 1.6 | 1 | 1.9 | |
| 1 | 1.7 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1 | 1.8 | 1 | 2.1 | |
| 1 | 1.9 | 2 | 2.3 | |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 3 | 2.1 | — | — | |
| 1 | 2.3 | — | — | |
| 1 | 2.4 | — | — | |
| 3 | 2.5 | — | — | |
| 2003-04 | 3 | ongoing | 1 | ongoing |
| 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.4 | |
| 3 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.5 | |
| 3 | 0.3 | 1 | 1 | |
| 4 | 0.5 | 1 | 1.1 | |
| 2 | 0.6 | 1 | 1.2 | |
| 2 | 0.7 | 1 | 1.3 | |
| 4 | 0.8 | 1 | 1.7 | |
| 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 1.8 | |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 1.9 | |
| 1 | 1.1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2 | 1.2 | 1 | 2.3 | |
| 2 | 1.4 | 1 | 2.8 | |
| 2 | 1.5 | 1 | 3.3 | |
| 2 | 1.6 | 1 | 3.4 | |
| 4 | 1.7 | 1 | 4.4 | |
| 1 | 1.8 | — | — | |
| 1 | 1.9 | — | — | |
| 4 | 2 | — | — | |
| 1 | 2.5 | — | — | |
| 1 | 2.7 | — | — | |
| 1 | 2.9 | — | — | |
| 1 | 3.1 | — | — | |
| 1 | 3.7 | — | — | |
For nearly all outward secondments we fully recover the costs from the importing organisation so the only costs to the Department are the associated administrative costs. Each year we fund a small number of secondments to bodies such as the European Commission to provide development opportunities for staff. These costs and the cost of each secondment for each year could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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