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Secondments

Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments in each year since 1997–98. [108105]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: Under Cabinet Office interchange procedures, the term secondment relates solely to movement of staff to and from the private sector and other non-civil service organisations.

British Trade International (the joint DTI/FCO organisation leading on trade development and investment) has provided the information requested on FCO secondments to the private sector as set out in the table.

The second table shows FCO secondments to other non-civil service organisations. The FCO does not hold comprehensive records for the year 1997, so the information begins from 1998.

Secondments from the FCO to private sector: March 1997-April 2003

FCO grade	Secondment location	Start	End
D6	RTZ	October 1996	March 1997
C4	China Britain Trade Group	June 1996	August 1997
D6	Rolls Royce	March 1997	November 1997
D6	British Aerospace	February 1997	November 1997
Legal Adviser	International Committee Red Cross	January 1996	January 1999
SMS	Unilever	August 1997	March 1998
SMS	Unilever	November 1997	April 1998
D6	Shell	January 1997	June 1998
SMS	Unilever (Shanghai)	September 1998	February 1999
SMS	Unilever	November 1998	February 1999
SMS	Standard Chartered Bank	March 1997	August 1998
B3	Glencree Centre	December 1997	November 1998
SMS	New Millennium Experience Co	September 1998	December 1998
D6	British Aerospace	January 1998	January 1999
B3	London Chamber of Commerce	April 1997	April 1999
SMS	BOC	September 1998	February 1999
D6	Price Waterhouse	September 1997	May 1999
D6	BP	November 1997	May 1999
D6	British Invisibles	January 1999	May 1999
C4	Institute of Export	March 1998	June 1999
SMS	British Aerospace	May 1999	November 1999
SMS	Prince's Trust	October 1996	December 1999
B3	China Britain Trade Group	October 1997	January 1999
B3	China Britain Business Council	February 1999	December 1999
Economist	BP	October 1997	December 1999
C4	AMEC	November 1999	February 2000
SMS	BP	October 1999	February 2000
D6	CBI	May 1999	March 2000
SMS	Smithkline Beecham International (Nairobi)	January 2000	March 2000
D6	Standard Chartered Bank	November 1998	March 2000
C4	Open Broadcast Network	June 1998	April 2000
D6	Reading University	December 1999	June 2000
SMS	Andersen Consulting	August 1999	May 2000
D7	London First Centre	April 1998	June 2000
D7	British Invisibles	June 1998	June 2000
D6	Fidelity	June 1999	July 2000
C5	ICL	November 1998	July 2000
C4	Totectors Ltd.	May 2000	August 2000
SMS	Andersen Consulting	January 1998	September 2000
C4	Fire Industry Confederation	May 2000	October 2000
D6	Standard Chartered Bank	September 2000	November 2000
SMS	Standard Chartered Bank	October 2000	November 2000
C4	Institute of Waste Management	August 2000	November 2000
SMS	New Millennium Experience Co	April 1999	December 2000
C4	Institute of Export	August 1999	February 2001
SMS	BP	February 2001	May 2001
SMS	BP Amoco Cape Town (South Africa)	November 2000	April 2001
B3	London Chamber of Commerce	May 1999	April 2001
D6	CBI	February 2001	June 2001
SMS	Standard Chartered Bank	October 2001	February 2002
SMS	Lehman Bros	March 2000	March 2002
C4	Asia House	May 2001	May 2002
C4	Halcrow (Singapore)	February 1999	July 2002
C5	Partnership Sourcing Ltd.	April 2001	August 2002
D6	BAE Systems Tokyo	October 2001	September 2002
SMS	Shell International	May 2002	November 200
B3	Bacon and Woodrow	February 2001	November 2002
TP/C5	BCB Worldwide	August 2000	December 2002
SMS	International Financial Services (formally British Invisibles)	September 2000	January 2003
SMS	Unilever	September 2001	March 2003
C4	B. Link Manchester (formerly Oldham Chamber)	October 1998	September 2003
C4	United Response	August 2002	August 2003
C4	Petrofac Chemicals	May 2000	July 2003
B3	London Chamber of Commerce	June 2001	June 2003
D6	Technical Assistance and Development Services (TADS) Ltd.	April 2002	April 2004
TC/5	Partnership Sourcing Ltd.	October 2002	October 2003
TC/5	CBI	October 2002	May 2003
C4	Business Link West	November 2002	November 2003
B3	Greater Merseyside Enterprise	January 2003	January 2004
C4	North West Development Agency	January 2003	January 2004
SMS	International Financial Services (formally British Invisibles)	January 2003	January 2005
T/D6	BCCB	January 2003	January 2005
C4	South Yorkshire International Trade Council	March 2003	March 2004
B4	BL Notts	March 2003	August 2003

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Non-private sector

FCO grade	Secondment location	Start	End
SMS	EU Commission	01/01/1998	01/06/1999
D6	Turks and Caicos	01/03/1998	01/12/1999
D6	House of Lords	01/04/1998	19/04/2002
D6	Council of European Union	08/07/1998	01/08/2001
SMS	SHAPE	01/08/1998	01/09/2002
SMS	Career Dev Attachment (CDA) Harvard	01/08/1998	01/06/1999
SMS	Ditchley Foundation	01/08/1998	01/08/2001
SMS	UN	01/08/1998	01/01/2000
SMS	EU Commission	01/09/1998	01/09/2000
C5	EnergyCharter Secretariat, Brussels	15/10/1998	15/10/2001
C4	CDA Ecole National d'Admin (ENA)	01/11/1998	01/07/1999
SMS	Buckingham Palace	01/01/1999	15/09/2002
SMS	CDA Sussex University	01/01/1999	01/12/1999
D6	Imperial College	01/01/1999	09/04/2000
D6	UN	30/01/1999	07/12/2001
SMS	Office of High Rep Sarajevo	01/02/1999	01/02/2000
D6	IMF	01/02/1999	25/02/2002
D6	International Org for Migration Geneva	19/04/1999	09/04/2002
SMS	CDA Harvard	01/07/1999	01/04/2000
B3	Football Association	01/07/1999	31/08/2000
D6	London Business School	26/08/1999	26/08/2001
SMS	EU Commission	01/09/1999	01/09/2004
D6	EU Commission	01/09/1999	01/09/2002
C4	NGO Article 19	01/09/1999	01/12/1999
D6	CDA ENA	01/09/1999	01/03/2001
D6	Office of Special Coord, Brussels	01/09/1999	13/08/2001
D6	Academic Study Masters	01/10/1999	01/10/2001
SMS	CDA St. Anthony's College	01/10/1999	01/06/2000
SMS	EU Commission	01/10/1999	01/10/2004
D6	EU Commission	01/12/1999	15/07/2002
D6	EU Commission	01/12/1999	01/11/2000
D6	CDA NATO Defence College, Rome	01/02/2000	01/07/2000
D6	CU Commission	01/02/2000	28/01/2002
D6	States of Jersey: St. Helier	01/04/2000	01/09/2003
SMS	Career Development Attachment	01/05/2000	01/12/2000
SMS	New Zealand MFA	01/05/2000	01/12/2000
D6	St. James's Palace	01/06/2000	26/06/2003
D6	Population Council HGO, Hanoi	01/07/2000	01/07/2001
SMS	CDA Harvard	01/07/2000	01/07/2001
D6	Oxfam	04/09/2000	13/07/2001
D6	DFA Dublin CDA	01/10/2000	01/04/2001
D6	NGO Interights	23/10/2000	31/12/2000
SMS	Romanian MFA	01/12/2000	01/12/2001
SMS	German MFA	08/01/2001	08/08/2001
SMS	Mostar Deputy High Rep/Sarajevo	14/01/2001	14/01/2003
D6	EU Comm	01/02/2001	01/07/2003
SMS	OSCE Belgrade	21/02/2001	28/02/2003
D6	Buckingham Palace	12/06/2001	01/06/2004
SMS	CDA St. Anthony's College	01/10/2001	13/07/2002
D6	German MFA	04/10/2001	15/06/2002
SMS	SHAPE	01/11/2001	15/03/2003
SMS	RCDS	01/12/2001	01/12/2003
D6	Office of Czech President's Office	02/01/2002	31/03/2002
D6	Czech MFA	01/04/2002	15/01/2003
SMS	EU Council Secretariat	01/05/2002	15/05/2007
SMS	OHR Sarajevo	15/05/2002	15/05/2004
D6	CDAENA	01/01/2003	01/09/2003
SMS	St. James's Palace	14/04/2003	14/04/2006

Notes:

The FCO grading system equates as follows:

SMS = Senior Civil Service

D7 = Home Civil Service 6

D6 = Home Civil Service 7

C5 = Senior Executive Officer

C4 = Higher Executive Officer

B3 = Executive Officer

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US Forces (Indian Ocean)

Mr. Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how long US military forces will be stationed on British territory in the Indian Ocean. [109642]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: HMG in 1966 and subsequently has entered into a series of bilateral agreements with the United States on the use of the British Indian Ocean Territory under which the whole territory is to remain available for the defence needs of the two countries for an initial period of 50 years from 1966, and thereafter for a further period of 20 years unless either party has given prior notice to terminate it.

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