Question follow-through · 9616
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many civil servants are assigned to work in each of his Department's offices; and how many desks are available in each office.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 15 Nov 2024 · 30 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many civil servants are assigned to work in each of his Department's offices; and how many desks are available in each office.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Nov 2024
Answer published
Attached is the data for how many Civil Servants are assigned to work in each departments office as of August 2024. Below is the data for how many desks are available in policy hubs from October 2024. The reason we have only given this data, is that all o...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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