To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which organisations collect subscriptions through the employers' payroll service in his Department and its agencies.
Answered on
4 July 2014
This response covers Core Defra, Animal Health Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA), the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA), the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) and the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD).
Defra and its agencies allow the following organisations to collect subscriptions through its payroll services:
AXA Sun Life (FERA only)
Benenden Healthcare Society
Birmingham Hosp Saturday Fund (AHVLA and RPA only)
Charitable Giving
Charity for Civil Servants
Civil Service Benevolent Fund
Civil Service Club
Civil Service Pension Scheme (inc stakeholder)
Civil Service Retirement Fellowship
Civil Service Sports Council
Commercial Union Life Assurance
Customs & Excise Sports Club (core Defra only)
Customs Fund Insurance (core Defra only)
Cyclescheme (FERA only)
Defra Lottery
Department of Environment Recreational Association (core Defra only)
Dimensions Fitness
Fideliti
First Division Association
Forester Health Plan Scheme
General, Municipal & Boilermakers (AHVLA only)
Give As You Earn (RPA and CEFAS only)
Halfords
HAS Crown Plan & Individual (RPA only)
Hospital Savings Association
Land Registry Sports & Social (VMD only)
Leeds Hospital Fund (AHVLA only)
Medicash Health Scheme (CEFAS and RPA only)
Minerva Sports & Social (VMD only)
Prospect
Public and Commercial Services Union
Simply Health (core Defra and FERA only)
Sodexo (FERA only)
Sovereign Health Care (core Defra and FERA only)
SSA Lottery (CEFAS only)
Sun Life Assurance Company
Welsh Hospitals (AHVLA only)
Welsh Office Sports & Social Association (core Defra only)