Environment Agency: Staff
(asked on 6th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many employees of the Environment Agency were working on water pollution in each year since 2015.
This question was answered on 10th March 2023
Team | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | Feb-23 |
Land & Water | 364 | 365 | 345 | 353 | 375 | 338 | 372 | 422 |
Ground Water & Contaminated Land | 179 | 161 | 157 | 153 | 147 | 144 | 133 | 127 |
Total | 543 | 526 | 502 | 507 | 523 | 482 | 505 | 549 |
Notes:
- Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Data as of 31 March each year.
- These teams deliver an integrated package of water and land work, including regulation, planning, advice and pollution incident response. On average: Land and Water teams spend around 25 – 30% of their time; and Ground water and contaminated land teams spend around 2-3% of their time responding to and preparing for a mixture of water, land and flood incidents.