Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Redundancy

(asked on 13th December 2017) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2017 to Question 115825, how many staff are expected to leave the Department as part of Voluntary Exit Schemes in the next two financial years; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 19th December 2017

Defra’s plans for exiting staff under Voluntary Exit Schemes in the next two financial years have not yet been confirmed.

As the Department increases its resources in response to the UK’s departure from the EU, we will aim to redeploy people into that work where they have the skills and capability to do so, rather than offering them Voluntary Exit.

We continue to keep our resourcing plans under review to ensure that we can realise efficiency savings as we transform the Department.

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