Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Secondment
(asked on 28th August 2026) - 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 9 July 2026, to Question 14616, on DEFRA: Secondment, if she will name the (a) 45 organisations that were seconded from DEFRA and (b) 22 organisations which were seconded to DEFRA.
Our response to PQ 14616 contained an error. The numbers were transposed. The correct position is: “Since July 2024 a total of 22 organisations had Civil Servants seconded to them from Defra whilst in the same period, Defra received secondees from a total of 45 organisations.”
The list below shows the a) 22 organisations that had Civil Servants seconded to them from Defra and b) 45 organisations Defra received secondees from.
a) Outward Secondments from Defra to: |
Climate Change Committee |
Commonwealth Secretariat |
Environment Agency |
Future Homes Hub |
Global Fishing Watch |
Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich islands |
Historic England |
Independent Office for Police Conduct |
Institute for Government |
International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits Limited |
Joint Nature Conservation Committee |
Livestock Information Ltd |
Metropolitan Police Service |
Mole Valley District Council |
Natural England |
NEG |
Office for Environmental Protection |
Office for Students |
Oxford University |
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) |
Wigan Council |
World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) |
b) Inward Secondments to Defra from: |
ALUPRO |
Cambridge University |
City St Georges |
Climate Sense |
Cranfield Environment Centre |
Cumbria County Council |
DAERA |
Drinking Water Inspectorate |
Environment Agency |
Eunomia Research & Consulting |
Forest Research |
Imperial College London |
Joint Nature Conservation Committee |
Kent Wildlife Trust |
Lancaster University |
Loughborough University |
Natural England |
OPRL Ltd |
Oxford University |
Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
Re London |
Ricardo Energy and Environment |
School of Civil Engineering |
School of Earth and Environment |
School of Geography and the Environment |
Scottish Government |
SeaFish |
SOAS University London |
Surrey County Council |
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology |
UK National Nuclear Laboratory |
Ulster University |
University College London |
University of Exeter |
University of Lancaster |
University of Leeds |
University of London |
University of Oxford |
University of Southampton |
University of Stirling |
University of Wolverhampton |
University of York |
Veolia |
Waste and Resources Action Programme |
Welsh Water |