Peter Ainsworth (Shadow Secretary of State for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, Environment, Food & Rural Affairs; East Surrey, Conservative) | Hansard source

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 4 June 2008, Official Report, column 920W, on flood control: vacancies,

(1) how many vacancies for (a) flood risk engineers, (b) flood risk planners, (c) flood risk project managers and (d) other flood risk management posts there were in the Environment Agency in each region on 1 April in each of the last five years;

(2) for how long each post for (a) flood risk engineers, (b) flood risk planners, (c) flood risk project managers and (d) other flood risk management referred to has been vacant.

Phil Woolas (Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Oldham East & Saddleworth, Labour) | Hansard source

I have arranged for the information requested to be placed in the Libraries of the House.