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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of staff employed by his Department have experience in farming.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
25 Oct 2024
Target answer date
29 Oct 2024
Answer
4 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of staff employed by his Department have experience in farming.

  2. 29 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The information requested is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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