Senior Departmental Posts

Annabelle Ewing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many senior departmental posts were advertised in each year since June 1999; and how many of these were advertised in the Scottish press. [120663]

Alun Michael
The information is as follows:(a) Since the formation of Defra the following senior departmental posts were advertised in each year as follows:--------------------------
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|From April 2003         |
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|April 2002 to April 2003|
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|April 2001 to April 2002|
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It would incur disproportionate cost to obtain this information prior to the formation of Defra.(b) No senior departmental posts were advertised separately in the Scottish press.