Conditions of Employment
(asked on 16th March 2015) - View Source
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 in her Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
The Department’s Annual Report and Accounts set out the number of off-payroll workers employed by the Core Department, its Executive Agencies and Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies each year. The table below shows the information requested in each financial year from 2009-10 to 2013-14 (the last financial year for which a set of accounts has been published).
Organisation | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 |
Core Defra | 362 | 119 | 73 | 73 | 91 |
Executive Agencies: | |||||
Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (see Note) | 133 | 56 | 104 | 93 | 90 |
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science | 14 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 1 |
Food and Environment Research Agency (see Note) | 15 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 11 |
Rural Payments Agency | 320 | 32 | 54 | 150 | 206 |
Veterinary Medicines Directorate | 7 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 10 |
Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies: | |||||
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (see Note) | 0 | 73 | 34 | 18 | 38 |
Consumer Council for Water | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Environment Agency | 868 | 349 | 687 | 764 | 403 |
Joint Nature Conservation Committee | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Marine Management Organisation | 59 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
National Forest Company | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural England | 183 | 124 | 131 | 135 | 181 |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | 35 | 41 | 28 | 48 | 36 |
Sea Fish Industry Authority | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Note: the figures for the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency reflect the organisation’s then structure, which was created from a merger of the Animal Health agency and the Veterinary Laboratories Agency on 1 April 2011. The figures do not reflect the restructuring into the Animal and Plant Health Agency on 1 October 2014, when some areas of work undertaken previously by Fera (Food and Environment Research Agency) were brought into the new organisation.