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Department for Work and Pensions: Hakluyt

Asked by Jon TrickettLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 18 March 2025UIN 37123

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff their Department has seconded from Hakluyt since July 2024.

Answered by Andrew Western

Secondments is one way of bringing talent and experience into the civil service for short periods of time and has been used by successive governments. Secondments are arranged at a business unit level and data is held at Business Unit Level.

There have been no staff seconded into DWP from Hakluyt since July 2024.

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