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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2024 to Question 18221 on Supreme Court: Judgments, whether he plans to change his Department's workforce policies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2024 to Question 18221 on Supreme Court: Judgments, whether he plans to change his Department's workforce policies.
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2025
Answer published
While legal proceedings remain ongoing, and there will be a need to assess the position on an ongoing basis, there is currently no intention to change the Defra policy on the provision of the check-off facility.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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