Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many secondments have taken place between his Department and the Chartered Institute of Trading Standards in the last 15 years; and in what capacity each such secondment was undertaken.

At senior civil servant level (SCS) there have been no secondments between the Department and the Chartered Institute of Trading Standards.

For civil servants and posts at grades lower than SCS, no such secondments have taken place, as far back as our central records for these secondments extend, that is, back to 2009.