Question follow-through · 31382
Groceries Code Adjudicator: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff work for the Groceries Code Adjudicator; and whether any of those staff are seconded from other Departments.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff work for the Groceries Code Adjudicator; and whether any of those staff are seconded from other Departments.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) is funded by a levy on the fourteen regulated retailers covered by the Groceries Supply Code of Practice. It does not employ its own staff but may make arrangements for staff to be seconded from any other public author...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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