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Departmental Public Participation

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what opinion polls his Department has conducted of (a) the public and (b) staff since 27 June 2007; and what the (i) name of the firm employed to conduct the poll, (ii) purpose and (iii) cost to the public purse was in each case. (164952)

The following surveys have been carried out by or on behalf of DEFRA since 27 June 2007:

Survey title

Purpose

Contracted research company

Anticipated cost (£)

RPA Customer Satisfaction survey

Measure progress and impact of organisational changes and to identify areas for business improvement.

Kadence

80,928

Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate Customer satisfaction survey

To monitor performance and customer satisfaction

DEFRA—in house

1,740

Veterinary Medicine Directorate Feedback Survey

To ensure that VMD can improve the services it provides to “paying” customers and formally show that it cares about its customers views

Cognition Market Intelligence

50,000

Natural England Stakeholder Survey

Establishing relationships with partner organisations which help to achieve outcomes for the natural environment

Market Research Services

40,000

Business Attitudes to Resource Efficiency

To monitor any changes in attitudes to the opportunities provided by the Business resource Efficiency and Waste (BREW) programmes

Continental research

10,000

Attitudes to Climate Change—wave 6

To monitor attitudes towards, and understanding of, Climate Change following the implementation of its Climate Change Strategy

ICM

31,436

Chewing Gum Action Group Campaign evaluation

Tracking research to measure campaign awareness and to re-gauge attitudes

BMRB Social Research

59,150

Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restrictions of Chemicals (REACH) Awareness Raising Campaign tracking research

Tracking research to measure campaign success and to determine levels of awareness and implications of the policy

GFK

31,350

Natural Environment Communications Research

Baseline research about general attitudes and behaviour among citizens towards the Natural Environment

Edcomms

41,200

Identifying Key Water Saving Messages

To identify consumer awareness and attitudes towards water resources as well as citizens’ ability to adopt water efficient practices

MVA Consultancy

30,356

Waste Infrastructure Research

To identify public awareness of knowledge and attitudes to waste disposal

Navigator

58,550