§ Sue DoughtyTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the(a) number and (b) location of Information Technology staff in her Department employed directly or on contract at each location outside Guildford. [150614]
§ Alun MichaelThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has made a strategic decision to outsource the majority of its IT service delivery and functions under the e-nabling Defra Programme.
The following table outlines the number of people involved in IT-related work based at each location, outside Guildford (based on our records as at December 2003):
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Location Number of people undertaking IT related work1
9 Millbank, London 1 Alnwick 1 Ashdown House, London 26 Bristol 2 Bury St Edmunds 2 Caernarfon 1
Location Number of people undertaking Location IT related work1
Cambridge 4 Cardiff 2 Carlisle 1 Chelmsford 1 Crewe 9 Cromwell House, London 2 Dorchester 1 Eastbury House, London 1 Ergon House, London 8 Foss House, York 9 Gloucester 1 Harrogate 1 Heathrow 1 Kings House, Reading 21 Launceston 21 Leeds 6 Leicester 1 Lincoln 1 Newcastle 2 Nobel House, London 219 Northallerton 1 Norwich 2 Nottingham 5 Oxford 1 Page Street, London 4 Penrith 1 Preston 2 Shrewsbury 1 Stafford 1 Reading 1 Reigate 1 Taunton 1 Temple Quay House, Bristol 3 Trowbridge 1 Truro 1 Whitehall Place, London 4 Woburn Place, London 6 Wolverhampton 1 Worcester 5 Workington 10 Wye 1 Total 158 1 Some of these people are undertaking a very minimal amount of IT work. 2 One of these posts is filled by a contractor.