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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people were employed by his Department on 19 November 2018.

The number of staff employed by the department as at 31 October 2018 was 4146. This will be consistent with data due to be published by 7 December 2018 at Data.Gov.UK - Dataset Workforce Management Information Defra, in line with Cabinet Office arrangements.

We are unable to provide this data as at 19 November 2018 without incurring disproportionate cost.