Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff are employed in her Department's headquarter buildings.
As at 30 September 2014, approximately 1,500 staff were employed by core Defra based in the London Nobel House complex.
This excludes Natural England employees and a number of staff on temporary contracts, loan or secondment from other bodies or employed through contracted out service agreements who are also based in this office complex.