PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES - United Kingdom Parliament

1047W
Written Answers
26 MARCH 2013
Written Answers
1048W
Natural England
Number of staff taking
consecutive days
Number of staff taking
days in total
75 to 100 days 6 9
100 to 150 days to 6 9
150 to 200 days 1 2
More than 200 days 0 0
More than 3 months 0 0
More than 6 months 0 0
More than 1 year 0 0
2012
1 to 4 days 298 596
5to10days 191 238
10 to 15 days 57 97
15 to 20 days 29 33
20 to 25 days 18 18
25 to 50 days 47 58
50 to 75 days 12 21
75 to 100 days 9 10
100 to 150 days 4 5
150 to 200 days 0 2
More than 200 days 0 0
More than 3 months 0 0
More than 6 months 0 0
More than 1 year 0 0
Organisation
Covent Garden Market Authority
Environment Agency
Gangmasters Licensing Authority
Joint Nature Conservation
Committee
Marine Management Organisation
National Forest Company
Natural England
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Pay grades
Chief Executive Officer Finance
Director Commercial and
Operations Director Business
Development Director Project
Director
Executive Manager 1 (SCS)
Executive Manager 2 (SCS)
Executive Manager 3 (SCS)
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer Director
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer Executive
Director Director
RBG Kew has a category called
″Individual Contracts″ that are
considered to be SCS equivalents.
Staff
Chi Onwurah: To ask the Secretary of State for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which pay
grades his Department defines as senior officials in his
Department’s arm’s length bodies. [150238]
Richard Benyon: Senior staff in core DEFRA and its
executive agencies are defined as those paid within the
senior civil service paybands. These include paybands 1,
1A, 2 and 3, as well as Permanent Secretary.
The following table provides the names of the pay
grades that are considered equivalent to the senior civil
service (SCS) in the Department’s arms length bodies.
Organisation
Agriculture & Horticulture
Development Board
Pay grades
Chief Executive Officer Finance
Director Sector Directors
Sea Fish Industry Authority
Termination of Employment
At the present time, Seafish
considers the three SCS equivalents
to be: Chief Executive Officer
Operations Director Business
Services Director However, Seafish
will soon implement a restructure. It
will then have four SCS equivalents:
Chief Executive Officer Technical
Director External Affairs Director
Business Services Director
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many
officials in (a) his Department and (b) each of its
non-departmental public bodies have left that body due
to (i) resignation, (ii) retirement, (iii) redundancy, (iv)
transferral to another public sector post and (v)
another reason in each of the last five years. [147949]
Consumer Council for Water
Chief Executive Officer Head of
Policy & Research Head of
Corporate Services Head of
Consumer Relations
Richard Benyon: The following table shows the number
of staff in core DEFRA, its agencies and non-departmental
public bodies that left, for the reasons listed, in each
calendar year between 2008 and 2012.
Department
Reason for leaving 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Core DEFRA Resignation 89 53 59 44 38
Retirement 30 28 32 12 15
Redundancy 326 12 7 274 48
Transfer to other public
64 64 37 34 58
sector post
Other 51 48 79 19 15
Total 560 205 214 383 174
Executive agency
Reason for leaving 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Animal Health Veterinary
Laboratories Agency
Resignation 133 100 123 83 77
Retirement 77 51 64 29 32