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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many officials in her Department of each (a) gender, (b) ethnicity and (c) age received the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System's (i) exceeded, (ii) met and (iii) must improve performance mark in 2013-14.

Core Defra Performance markings split by gender, ethnicity, age, disability and working pattern for grades AA – Grade 6 for 2013-14 are still being analysed internally and have not yet been published. This data will form part of the annual Workforce Monitoring Report, which will be published on www.defra.gov.uk by 31 January 2015.