Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications her Department has received for (a) internal loans and (b) secondments from civil servants in each year since 2010.

All of the Department’s vacancies that are advertised across the Civil Service are available on inward loan.

I am sorry, but we have only been able to provide data from August 2016, when we changed recruitment provider. We are not able to provide the information prior to August 2016 in the format requested as it would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold as set by Treasury of £850.

Secondments are only open to non-civil servants to take up temporary roles in the department. Therefore no civil servants will have applied for secondments.