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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Secondment

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 10 June 2026UIN 6089

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will list the names of the organisations that have (a) had departmental Civil Servants seconded to them since July 2024, and (b) seconded organisational staff to the department.

Answered by Michael Shanks

The following organisations have had departmental Civil Servants seconded to them since July 2024:

  • Electricity System Operator
  • Great British Energy
  • Great British Nuclear
  • GCHQ
  • Global Media
  • Infected Blood Compensation Authority
  • MOD
  • National Energy System Operator
  • Oxford University
  • Royal Botanical Gardens Kew
  • The Crown Estate
  • The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • UK Atomic Energy Authority
  • UK Government Investments
  • University of Leeds, Production and Consumption Transformation (PACT) centre
  • Wellcome Trust

The following organisations have seconded organisational staff to the department since July 2024:

  • Alan Turing Institute
  • AWE Nuclear Security Technologies
  • Baringa
  • Clean Air Fund
  • CO2 Sense
  • Cranfield University
  • Energus
  • Electricity Systems Operator
  • Fuels Industry UK/Exxon Mobil
  • Houses of Parliament Renewal & Restoration Project Delivery Authority
  • Imperial College
  • Lancaster University
  • Loughborough University
  • National Gas
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • National Energy System Operator
  • Net Zero and Energy Frameworks Ltd
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • Octopus Energy
  • Office for Nuclear Regulation
  • ORE Catapult
  • Oxford University
  • RenewableUK
  • Ricardo AEA Ltd
  • Rolls Royce
  • Royal Academy of Engineers
  • Royal Holloway University London
  • Royal Society
  • RWE
  • S Curve Economics
  • Salix
  • Scottish Power
  • Sellafield
  • SSE
  • Systemiq
  • Transport for London
  • The Institute For Public Policy Research
  • Trade Union Congress
  • University College London
  • UK Government Investments
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Loughborough
  • University of Southampton
  • Xodus Group
  • York University

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