PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Communities and Local Government: Staff (15 December 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the total (a) budget and (b) full-time equivalent workforce was of his Department's Resilience and Emergencies Division in each of the last six years.

Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)

Government has paid out almost £300 million to help householders, communities and businesses to get back on their feet, following the winter flooding of 2015/16.

In the previous five years, the Departmental pay budgets were not broken down to this level of detail so there are not comparable figures available. The staffing levels in this division fluctuate, using extra capacity to manage the coordination of the Government’s recovery programmes such as the public disorder of 2011, major floods of 2013/14 and major winter floods of 2015/16.

In 2016/17, the total pay budget for the Department’s Resilience and Emergencies Division for 2016/17 is £3.01 million. Levels of staff have risen and fallen as the Government response has increased and been stood down.

Answered by:
Andrew Percy (Conservative)
23 December 2016