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Food and Environment Research Agency

Volume 711: debated on Thursday 4 June 2009

Question

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To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Statement by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Hilary Benn, on 23 March (Official Report, House of Commons, 1–2WS), how many of the staff of the component parts of the new Food and Environment Research Agency have not transferred and what are their grades. [HL3887]

The attached table summarises the Defra staff from the Plant Health Division/ Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate (PHD/PHSI), Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division (PVS) and the Government Decontamination Service (GDS), who did not transfer to FERA on 1 April 2009.

SCS

Grade 7

Executive Officer

Administration Officer

Total No of staff who did not transfer to Fera

GDS

1

1

PHD/PHSI

1

1

1

3

PVS

1

2

3

Total

2

1

1

3

7

All staff in the Central Science Laboratory transferred to the new agency.