Question follow-through · 15515
Department for Business and Trade: Consultants
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in each year since 2021.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 21 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 29 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in each year since 2021.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Department for Business and Trade is a newly formed Department established in February 2023. The new department absorbed the functions of the former Department for International Trade (DIT) and some of the functions of the former Department for Busine...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Museums and Galleries
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans he has to meet with representatives of (a) museums and (b) galleries to discuss the potential impact of proposals for the implementation of a new subscription contracts regime on those organ