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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what policy evaluations have been carried out by external organisations for her Department and its agencies in each financial year since 2010-11; whether the output of those evaluations was published; which organisation carried out each such evaluation; and what the value of each contract to provide that evaluation was.

Defra’s ‘Science and Research Projects’ website contains information on Defra-funded research projects, including Defra policy evaluations. This data includes the year the project took place; the organisation that carried out the research; the value of the contract; and any published reports. The database can be accessed at: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs/about/research.