Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Civil Service secondment and interchange strategy was last updated.

The Civil Service Workforce Plan (2016) sets out the importance of movement in and out of the Civil Service, in order to exchange skills and expertise and enable the Civil Service to respond to changing priorities and deliver Government commitments. The Civil Service Talent Board oversees the approach to secondments and regularly reviews this. It last discussed it in May 2017, and considered how to build on the work of the High Potential Secondments Programme and how to ensure we are using secondments to meet capability needs, particularly in relation to the EU exit.