Speeches

Cheryl Gillan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cheryl Gillan on 2014-06-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people working in (a) HS2 Ltd and (b) his Department are (i) on secondment, (ii) on loan and (iii) paid for by another company; and in each case what the parent company or organisation of such people was.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The number of people seconded and loaned to my whole Department and HS2 Ltd are set out in the tables below:

HS2 Ltd

Parent Company/Organisation

Number of secondees

Unpaid*

AECOM

3

0

Cabinet Office

1

0

Carter Jonas

1

0

DCLG

1

0

DECC

1

0

DEFRA

1

0

DELOITTES

1

0

DfT

24

0

Ernst & Young LLP

2

0

Gardiner & Theobald

4

0

Network Rail

17

0

Pick Everard

4

0

ETM

1

0

PwC

3

0

Westbourne Communications

2

0

Total

66

0

Loans

0

0

*payments are invoiced to HS2 Ltd.

DFT

Total

Loans

Paid

25

Unpaid

19

Loan Total

44

Secondment

Paid

4

Unpaid

20

Secondment Total

24

Total

68

The Department does not hold information centrally on the parent company or organisation where they have come from.