Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff are seconded to her Department; and how many such staff are seconded from which companies and organisations.

The Department has no central record of staff seconded to it from other organisations or companies. Therefore, it is not possible to verify how many or from which organisations staff may have been seconded. This is because secondments are agreed by individual managers and may not always be notified to the central Human Resources team.