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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Off-payroll Working

Answer

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.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

227599

Session

2014-15

Subjects

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Off-payroll working

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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