FOI reference: FOI-2025-2938

You asked

This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations about secondments into your organisation.

Please could you provide the following information:

  1. The number of inward secondments that have worked in your department during the period from 5 July 2024 to the present.

  2. For each of these secondments during this period, please provide:

2a. The organisation the individual was seconded from

2b. The date they commenced their secondment

2c. The date they concluded/will conclude their secondment

2d. Whether your department paid the secondee/reimbursed their organisation. 

2e. A brief summary of the remit of the secondee.

We said

Thank you for your request. Responses are as follows:

1. 

  • 3

2a. 

  • NHS England 
  • Ellison Institute of Technology 
  • Stats New Zealand 

2b.

  • 25/11/2024 
  • 19/05/2025 
  • 23/06/2025  

2c.

  • 30/10/2025 
  • 18/05/2027 
  • 22/06/2026 

2d.

  • 2 not on department payroll and no reimbursement from own organisation 
  • 1 on department payroll   

2e.

  • 1 is in Methodology, Quality Directorate, Methods and Analysis Capability.
  • 1 is working in the Integrated Data Programme and Service Directorate, IDPS Strategy Division.
  • 1 is working in Health and International Directorate, Data and Analysis for Social Care and Health Division.