Question follow-through · 18053
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many employee settlement agreements there were in his Department in each year since 2020; and what the total value of such agreements is.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many employee settlement agreements there were in his Department in each year since 2020; and what the total value of such agreements is.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
Between 2020 and 2024 to date, Defra has agreed six settlement agreements: one in 2021, two in 2022, two in 2023 and one in 2024 to date. The total cost of these settlements is £234,200.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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