Question follow-through · 9827

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Ministers' Private Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, 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

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Answering body
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Tabled
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
21 Oct 2024
Answer
30 Oct 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, 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

  2. 21 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The Department is a customer of the Government Property Agency (GPA) at all its office locations. The office where the Department’s ministers are located is a GPA building, where GPA is the landlord and building manager and the Department is a tenant. GPA...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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