Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff were employed by the Environment Agency in (a) Cumbria and (b) Lancashire in each year since 1 January 2012.

The table below provides details of Full time equivalent (FTE) employee numbers in the Cumbria and Lancashire Area of the Environment Agency for each financial year from 2011/12 to 2016/17.

The Environment Agency does not maintain separate records of employees in Cumbria and employees in Lancashire as they operate as one combined Area.