Question follow-through · 18063
Ministry of Justice: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employee settlement agreements there were in her Department in each year since 2020; and what the total value of such agreements is.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employee settlement agreements there were in her 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.
10 Dec 2024
Answer published
The information requested is not held centrally in a manner which enables readily extractable information to respond to the question and therefore obtaining it would incur disproportionate costs.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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