Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Secondment
(asked on 17th May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2019 to Question 237159 on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Secondment, how many staff have been seconded to his Department from the Environment Agency (a) since June 2016, (b) in the last 12 months and (c) in the last month.
Answered by
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The information provided is taken as at 30 April 2019.
Year | Number of Secondments from EA | Of which are still working in the department* |
a) June 2016 – All secondments from EA to Defra from June 2016 to April 2019. | 74 | 12 |
b) Last 12 Months – Those whose secondments started between May 2018 and April 2019. These are included in the number above. | 7 | Less than 5 |
c) April 2019 – Those whose secondments started in April 2019. These are included in both figures above. | 0 | 0 |
*These are the number of staff whose secondments have not yet come to an end, and are therefore still working in Defra. Those whose secondments have come to an end will have returned to the Environment Agency.
Secondments usually last for two years, however we would expect there to be some variation in length dependant on business needs.
We have chosen to withhold the information relating to the number of staff still in the department whose secondments started in the last 12 months in line with GDPR regulations, as it relates to less than 5 members of staff and therefore there is a risk they may be identified.