Question follow-through · 9288

Department for Work and Pensions: Ministers' Private Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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 Work and Pensions
Tabled: 15 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 17 Oct 2024
Answer: 23 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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.
23 Oct 2024
Answer published
I can confirm that there has been nil investment on (a) new furniture and fittings and (b) other refurbishment of Ministerial Offices for the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since the dissolution of the last Parliament.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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