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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions her Department has had requests for appointments by exception to the Senior Civil Service turned down by the Civil Service Commission since 2010; and who was appointed for each such post.

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided today by my Rt. Hon. friend the Member for Horsham to PQs UIN 213043 and 213053.