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<p>A total of 937 staff members have been transferred from the Environment Agency
to Defra since July 2016. All of these staff members were in Corporate Services teams
including finance, human resources and communications. IT, commercial, estates, facilities
management and shared services staff transferred on 1 November 2017 as part of the
Defra Group Corporate Services transformation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Corporate
Services enable the Defra group to operate by providing critical IT systems, HR and
finance support, property management, legal advice, and procurement and communications
services. Historically, teams have been fragmented across the Defra group, with each
delivery body running their own corporate services, working to different policies,
processes and systems. Having recognised the cost of complexity from this way of working,
we have integrated functional teams across the group in order to drive out inefficiency
and improve support to the business. Through this approach we are on track to deliver
£124m of savings over the Spending Review 2015 period. At the same time we expect
corporate services teams to remain an integrated and integral part of the organisations
they support through our business partner-led model.</p><p> </p>
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