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<p>We have checked the records that the department has kept since the introduction
of the Cabinet Office guidance on settlement agreements on 1 February 2015 and confirm
that we have one record, of using an NDA with a departmental staff member in July
2015.</p><p>The use of this NDA was unintentional i.e. the standard NDA paragraph
was accidently left in the template by mistake. We are not aware of the Home Office
using NDA for departmental staff other than this since the new guidance was introduced.
However, the records examined were cross-matched from several different data sets,
assembled for different purposes. As there were some gaps in the data sets, while
we are confident this was the only instance, we cannot guarantee that we were able
to identify every case.</p>
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