Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many additional full-time equivalent employees employed by his Department who were temporarily allocated to EU Exit preparation work in the areas of (a) fisheries, (b) farming and (c) chemicals have been redeployed in his Department to date; and how many of those staff will be redeployed in 2021-22.
Defra does not centrally record redeployments within the department or detail on the work areas where redeployment has occurred. We would have to contact the respective business areas for such information. This would incur disproportionate costs.