Question follow-through · 9609
Department for Business and Trade: Ministers' Private Offices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much was spent on (a) new furniture and fittings and (b) other refurbishment of Ministerial offices in his Department since the dissolution of the last Parliament; and on what items this was spent.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much was spent on (a) new furniture and fittings and (b) other refurbishment of Ministerial offices in his Department since the dissolution of the last Parliament; and on what items this was spent.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2024
Answer published
Since the dissolution of the last Parliament, the Department for Business and Trade has not spent any money on:a) new furniture or fittings for Minister’s offices orb) other refurbishment of Ministerial offices
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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