Environment Agency: Staff
(asked on 10th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the yearly change was in numbers of staff working in the Environment Agency from (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-2017, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-2019, (e) 2019-2020, (f) 2020-21 and (g) 2021-22.
Year | Total employees (payroll employees only) |
2015/16 | 9,673 |
2016/17 | 10,103 |
2017/18 | 9,490 |
2018/19 | 9,873 |
2019/20 | 10,326 |
2020/21 | 10,201 |
2021/22 | 10,378 |
Sep-22 | 10,890 |
In 2017/18, 895.9 FTE were TUPE-ed (Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)) to Defra.
Recruitment controls were implemented in 2020/21 to mitigate impacts from COVID and other cost pressures.
Since 2021/22, recruitment continues to support an increased capital programme and new duties funded through Spending Review 20 and Flood Recovery funding, as well as ongoing support to Defra group on priority work linked to COVID management.