Question follow-through · 9281

Department for Transport: Ministers' Private Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on (a) new furniture and fittings and (b) other refurbishment of Ministerial offices in her Department since the dissolution of the last Parliament; and on what items this was spent.

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 15 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 17 Oct 2024
Answer: 22 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on (a) new furniture and fittings and (b) other refurbishment of Ministerial offices in her Department since the dissolution of the last Parliament; and on what items this was spent.
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
Since 5 July 2024 the Department has spent £2,490 on furniture and £1,095 on redecoration of Ministerial offices.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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