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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in her Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.

Information on requests received and granted for flexible working in core Defra is not held centrally and could be provided only by incurring disproportionate cost.