Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people of each gender work in her Department.
Answered by George Eustice
Defra will publish the latest annual workforce monitoring report in January 2016. The report examines the diversity of Defra’s workforce and provides evidence of how we achieve our aim of offering real equality of opportunity to all our employees.
The data from this report has been used to create the table below to highlight gender breakdown by headcount. Table 1 shows staff in post as at 31 March 2015 in Defra and its Executive Agencies. Employees on maternity leave and secondment are included in this analysis if they are on the core or agency payroll.
Table 1
Headcount | Workforce monitoring report | Gender (male) | Gender (female) |
Defra | 2,086 | 1,064 | 1,022 |
APHA | 2,359 | 991 | 1,368 |
Cefas | 545 | 311 | 234 |
RPA | 2,134 | 982 | 1,152 |
VMD | 158 | 65 | 93 |
Defra and its Agencies | 7,282 | 3,413 | 3,869 |
The report referred to can be found on the Gov.UK website here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs/about/equality-and-diversity