Question follow-through · 19813
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in 2025 how many full-time equivalent civil servants in her Department focused on farming policy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in 2025 how many full-time equivalent civil servants in her Department focused on farming policy.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2026
Answer published
In 2025 Core Defra had 234 FTE working on farming policy directly. Farming benefits from wider Defra policies and activities where other staff in the Department would contribute.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on interpreters and related translation services in 2025.