Tom Watson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Watson on 2016-06-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many officials of her Department have applied for special leave to carry out work for non-governmental departments in the last 12 months.

Sir Desmond Swayne

DFID’s policy on special leave is specific and does not extend to working for other organisations. There has only been one exception to this policy in the last 12 months. As this relates to a single individual any further information is being withheld because releasing these details could lead to the individual being identified and would therefore breach the legitimate expectation of an individual’s right to protection of their personal information.