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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Annabelle Ewing: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many jobs under the remit of her Department in (a) the core department and (b) executive agencies are in (i) Scotland, (ii) England, excluding Greater London, (iii) Greater London, (iv) Wales, (v) Northern Ireland and (vi) overseas, broken down by (A) whole-time equivalent jobs and (B) the percentage per individual department, body or organisation; if she will break down the figures in terms of responsibilities which apply to (1) England, (2) England and Wales and (3) the UK as a whole; and if she will list the non-departmental public bodies and independent statutory bodies for which information is not held centrally. [127308] Alun Michael: The following table shows the number of permanent staff in Defra and its executive agencies that are located in the regions specified as at 1 April 2003. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. DEFRA CEFAS CSL PSD FTE % FTE % FTE % FTE % Scotland 77.6 1.17 0.0 0.00 11.0 1.70 0.0 0.00 England, excluding G London 3,707.4 56.14 524.7 100.00 636.9 98.30 174.2 100.00 Greater London 2,680.8 40.59 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 Wales 135.2 2.05 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 Northern Ireland 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 Overseas 3.0 0.05 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 Total 6,603.9 100.00 524.7 100.00 647.9 100.00 174.2 100.00 RPA VLA VMD FTE % FTE % FTE % Scotland 0.0 0.00 44.0 3.40 0.0 0.00 England, excluding G 3,370.9 99.94 1,218.3 94.15 119.3 100.00 London Greater London 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 Wales 0.0 0.00 31.7 2.45 0.0 0.00 Northern Ireland 2.0 0.06 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 Overseas 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.00 Total 3,372.9 100.00 1,294.0 100.00 119.3 100.00 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Due to the complexity of the department and the wide range of business areas that it covers, a break down of these figures in terms of responsibilities that apply to geographical areas could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The following non-departmental public bodies and independent statutory bodies are under the remit of Defra: Executive Agricultural Wages Board for England & Wales Agricultural Wages Committee Apple and Pear Research Council British Potato Council Countryside Agency English Nature Environment Agency Food From Britain Council Home Grown Cereals Authority Horticulture Development Council Horticulture Research International Joint Nature Conservation Committee Meat and Livestock Commission Milk Development Council National Forest Company Regional Flood Defence Committee Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Sea Fish Industry Authority UK Register of Organic Food Standards Wine Standards Board Advisory Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee on Packaging Advisory Committee on Pesticides Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment Agricultural Dwelling House Advisory Committee Air Quality Expert Group Committee of Investigation for Great Britain Committee on Agricultural Valuation Committee on Products and Processes for use in Public Water Supply Committee on Radioactive Waste Management Consumers Committee for Great Britain Darwin Advisory Committee (the Darwin Initiative) Expert Group on Cryptosporidium in Water Supplies Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards Farm Animal Welfare Council Government-Industry Forum on non-food uses of crops Hill Farming Advisory Committee Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) Appeals Panel Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council Pesticide Residues Committee Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee Royal Commission on Environment Pollution Science Advisory Council Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) Sustainable Development Commission Sustainable Development Education Panel Veterinary Products Committee Veterinary Residues Committee Water Regulations Advisory Committee Zoos Forum Tribunals Agricultural Land Tribunal Dairy Produce Quota Tribunal Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal Commons Commissioners Public corporation British Waterways Board Covent Garden Market Authority

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

127308; 410 c532-3W;410 c538-40W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Executive agencies Civil servants Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Greater London Government departments Northern Ireland Location Staff Non-departmental public bodies Scotland Wales Overseas workers

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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