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<p>Over 80% of Defra’s agenda is affected by the UK’s departure from the European
Union and as a result many roles across the Defra group are now supporting work related
to our departure from the EU, either directly or indirectly. We are unable to disaggregate
between ‘deal’ and ‘no deal’ planning work.</p><p> </p><p>As at the end of November,
Defra group has recruited over 2300 staff including fixed term appointments, interims
and staff redeployed from elsewhere in the group, to work on the UK’s departure from
the EU. Over 2100 are already in post with the remainder working through pre-employment
processes.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to recruit further additional staff to
support work related to leaving the EU and we are currently advertising or selecting
to fill an additional 250 posts.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Resourcing activity
is expected to be on-going through 2019/20 however we are currently in the process
of finalising our total people resource requirements for the year following receipt
in late December of a further £410m of Government funding to enable us to prepare
to leave the EU on either a deal or a no deal basis.</p>
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