Technology secondments from AI companies in the ONS

Dyddiad y datganiad:
5 June 2025

FOI reference: FOI-2025-2834

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 from technology and AI companies that have worked in your department during the period from 05/07/2024 to the present. 
  2. For each of these secondments during this period, please provide:
  3. The organisation the individual was seconded from
  4. The date they commenced their secondment
  5. The date they concluded/will conclude their secondment
  6. Whether your department paid the secondee/reimbursed their organisation. 
  7. A brief summary of the remit of the secondee.

We said

Thank you for your request. 

We can confirm that our records show zero secondees brought into the ONS from technology or AI companies. As a result, all subsequent questions regarding this matter are not applicable.

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