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Written Question
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pay
Friday 25th January 2019

Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners, (b) security guards and (c) catering staff in his Department in (i) Greater London and (ii) outside Greater London.

Answered by George Eustice

Defra’s office cleaners, security guards and catering staff are provided through outsourced suppliers. These suppliers hold information on the rate of remuneration of their staff, however our contracts with the suppliers require all staff to be paid the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation, as a minimum.

The Living Wage Foundation rates can be found at the Living Wage Foundation website (https://www.livingwage.org.uk/). There is a rate for London based staff and a rate for staff based outside of London.


Written Question
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Living Wage
Friday 12th October 2018

Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff in his Department that work (a) inside and (b) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage.

Answered by George Eustice

The Real Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation is a voluntary rate set each November and is currently £8.75 per hour. There are no staff who work (a) inside Greater London and (b) outside Greater London in Defra that are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage.


Written Question
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Living Wage
Friday 12th October 2018

Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff in his Department that work (a) inside and (b) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage.

Answered by George Eustice

The London Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation is a voluntary rate set each November and is currently £10.20 per hour. The National Living wage is currently £7.83. There are no staff who work inside Greater London in Defra that are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage.

There are 11 staff in the Department working outside of Greater London paid at a rate below the London Living wage as described by the Living Wage Foundation.


Written Question
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Working Hours
Friday 12th October 2018

Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the contracted hours are for the highest paid member of staff in his Department.

Answered by George Eustice

Senior Civil Servants (SCS) are contracted to work a minimum (over a 5 day week) of either 41 or 42 hours, including daily meal breaks for one hour. The new model contract was introduced on 1 July 2013, and standardised the working hours to 42 hours which was applicable to all new staff as well as those staff being promoted into or within SCS, from that date forward.

The contracted hours of the highest paid member of staff in the Department is 42 hours per week.


Written Question
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Staff
Friday 12th October 2018

Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff (a) are employed directly by (b) are seconded to and (c) work under contract to his Department.

Answered by George Eustice

The breakdown of staff in the department as at 31 July 2018 is shown in the following table:

Assignment Category

Headcount

a

Directly Employed (inc staff on Outward Secondment / Loan and Maternity / Special Leave)

3711

b

Inward Secondment / Loan

155

c

Contingent Workers (Temporary Agency Workers, Consultants, Contractors and Interim Staff)

483

Total

4349