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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Sue Doughty: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the (a) number and (b) location of Information Technology staff in her Department employed directly or on contract at each location outside Guildford. [150614] Alun Michael: The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has made a strategic decision to outsource the majority of its IT service delivery and functions under the e-nabling Defra Programme. The following table outlines the number of people involved in IT-related work based at each location, outside Guildford (based on our records as at December 2003): _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Location Number of people undertaking IT related work 1 9 Millbank, London 1 Alnwick 1 Ashdown House, London 26 Bristol 2 Bury St Edmunds 2 Caernarfon 1 Cambridge 4 Cardiff 2 Carlisle 1 Chelmsford 1 Crewe 9 Cromwell House, London 2 Dorchester 1 Eastbury House, London 1 Ergon House, London 8 Foss House, York 9 Gloucester 1 Harrogate 1 Heathrow 1 Kings House, Reading 21 Launceston 21 Leeds 6 Leicester 1 Lincoln 1 Newcastle 2 Nobel House, London 219 Northallerton 1 Norwich 2 Nottingham 5 Oxford 1 Page Street, London 4 Penrith 1 Preston 2 Shrewsbury 1 Stafford 1 Reading 1 Reigate 1 Taunton 1 Temple Quay House, Bristol 3 Trowbridge 1 Truro 1 Whitehall Place, London 4 Woburn Place, London 6 Wolverhampton 1 Worcester 5 Workington 10 Wye 1 Total 158 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Some of these people are undertaking a very minimal amount of IT work. 2 One of these posts is filled by a contractor.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

417 c767-8W; 150614

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Civil servants Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ICT Location Staff

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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