Food Standards Agency: Staff
(asked on 3rd July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff have been employed by the Food Standards Agency in each of the last five years.
The following table shows in each of the last five years, the headcount for the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Year Headcount
2019 1181.4
2020 1247.5
2021 1291.8
2022 1431.1
2023 1537.1
The following table shows in each of the last five years, the headcount of the National Food Crime Unit.
Year Headcount
2019 66.6
2020 70.1
2021 75.3
2022 77.3
2023 77.2
The above figures include all staff on FSA Payroll on the last day of March in each of the financial years and include casual employees and loans and secondments where FSA is paying greater than 50% of the salary but exclude Board and Committee members.