Environment Agency: Staff
(asked on 17th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of Environment Agency FTE staff on (a) temporary and (b) permanent contracts in each year from 2009; and if she will make a statement.
The below table shows the number of full-time equivalents (FTEs) in ENGLAND ONLY from 2009:
| a) Directly | b) Contracted Basis |
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Year | Perm Employees | Fixed Term Contract Employees | Employment Agency Staff | Contractors | Total |
09/10 | 10,918 | 359 | 429 | 452 | 12,158 |
10/11 | 10,063 | 105 | 209 | 135 | 10,512 |
11/12 | 9,816 | 158 | 516 | 139 | 10,628 |
12/13 | 10,345 | 310 | 487 | 216 | 11,358 |
13/14 | 10,068 | 207 | 218 | 114 | 10,608 |
14/15 | 9,624 | 113 | 343 | 154 | 10,235 |
15/16 | 9,556 | 117 | 275 | 391 | 10,340 |
16/17 | 9,839 | 264 | 185 | 607 | 10,896 |
17/18 | 9,174 | 316 | 233 | 283 | 10,006 |
18/19 | 9,577 | 296 | 297 | 260 | 10,429 |
September 2019 | 9,793 | 351 | 293 | 267 | 10,705 |
The changes in the number of staff who work at the Environment Agency represent the Spending Review settlements and income received from charge payers.
In addition, please note the following:-
In November 2017 896 FTE transferred to Defra Corporate Services under a Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) arrangement.