Speeches

Liz Kendall – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liz Kendall on 2016-01-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people of each gender work in her Department.

George Eustice

Defra will publish the latest annual workforce monitoring report in January 2016. The report examines the diversity of Defra’s workforce and provides evidence of how we achieve our aim of offering real equality of opportunity to all our employees.

The data from this report has been used to create the table below to highlight gender breakdown by headcount. Table 1 shows staff in post as at 31 March 2015 in Defra and its Executive Agencies. Employees on maternity leave and secondment are included in this analysis if they are on the core or agency payroll.

Table 1

Headcount

Workforce monitoring report

Gender (male)

Gender (female)

Defra

2,086

1,064

1,022

APHA

2,359

991

1,368

Cefas

545

311

234

RPA

2,134

982

1,152

VMD

158

65

93

Defra and its Agencies

7,282

3,413

3,869

The report referred to can be found on the Gov.UK website here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs/about/equality-and-diversity