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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many members of staff have left his Department since 1 January 2015; and how many of those members of staff were nationals of non-UK EU countries.

Since January 2015, 1070 staff on the payroll have left Defra. Of those, the recorded number of staff that have left the department in the same period, where non-UK EU nationality is known, is 36.