Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 21 March 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what number of full-time equivalent civil servants have worked in the Joint Air Quality Unit in each month since it was established since April 2016; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost of the Joint Air Quality Unit has been in each month since it was established in April 2016; and if she will make a statement.
The Joint Air Quality Unit (JAQU) includes staff from two Government Departments, Defra and the Department for Transport.
The table below sets out what number of full-time equivalent civil servants have worked in the JAQU as well as the associated pay cost in each month from April 2016 to February 2017. The increase seen across the period is a reflection of this Government’s commitment to improving air quality in the shortest possible time, both by adding new resources to the team and by bringing existing Defra analysts into the unit to work exclusively on the Government’s revised plan for nitrogen dioxide.
These figures are the most accurate and up to date available. The JAQU has also had two full-time Civil Service Fast Streamers working for it from September 2016 to February 2017. They are not included in the above numbers as Fast Streamers are employed under separate, Government-wide arrangements.
Month | Cost £ | |
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Apr-16 | 7.07 | 34,938 |
May-16 | 9.07 | 39,004 |
Jun-16 | 9.07 | 49,980 |
Jul-16 | 9.67 | 50,540 |
Aug-16 | 9.67 | 52,643 |
Sep-16 | 9.67 | 64,262 |
Oct-16 | 8.67 | 50,627 |
Nov-16 | 8.67 | 51,125 |
Dec-16 | 10.67 | 60,985 |
Jan-17 | 24.67 | 125,081 |
Feb-17 | 28.27 | 157,293 |
Total | 736,478 |
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