Written Question
Monday 25th April 2016
Asked by:
Tristram Hunt (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many jobs in (a) her Department and (b) each of her Department's non-departmental public bodies, executive agencies, non-ministerial departments, advisory bodies and other accountable statutory bodies (i) have been abolished in or relocated from East Cheshire Local Authority since 2010 and (ii) will be abolished in or relocated from East Cheshire Local Authority by 2020.
Answered by George Eustice
Not all of the Defra Group (Core and her non-departmental public bodies, executive agencies, non-ministerial departments, advisory bodies and other accountable statutory bodies) collect data on posts that have been abolished or relocated; although all collect management information about the people working in the East Cheshire Local Authority area.
In the Department we do not hold data on posts that have been abolished or relocated in the East Cheshire Local Authority area between March 2010 and now. There are currently no plans to abolish jobs in or relocate any jobs from the East Cheshire Local Authority area by 2020.
Not all of the Department's non-departmental public bodies, executive agencies, non-ministerial departments, advisory bodies and other accountable statutory bodies hold data on posts that have been abolished or relocated in the East Cheshire Local Authority area. Of those that do hold this data, during the period March 2010 to now 20 posts have been abolished. There are also currently no plans to abolish jobs in the East Cheshire Local Authority area by 2020.
Written Question
Thursday 14th January 2016
Asked by:
Tristram Hunt (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many jobs in (a) her Department and (b) each of its non-departmental public bodies, executive agencies, non-ministerial departments, advisory bodies and other accountable statutory bodies (i) have been abolished or relocated from Stoke-on-Trent since 2010 and (ii) will be abolished in or relocated from Stoke-on-Trent by 2020.
Answered by George Eustice
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, its executive agencies non-ministerial departments, advisory bodies and other accountable statutory bodies have no offices in Stoke-on-Trent, and therefore no jobs have been abolished since 2010 nor are any to be abolished or relocated by 2020.
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