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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many FTE Farm Inspectors have been employed in each region in each of the last five years figures are available.

Defra and its agencies carry out farm inspections for a wide range of reasons including Animal Inspections, Disease Inspections, Environmental Inspections, Facility Inspections, Funding Scheme Inspections and Veterinary Medicine Inspections. These inspections form part of wider roles within each agency and we are therefore unable to provide the data as requested.

These are the different kinds of farm inspections according to Gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/farming-inspections.