Question follow-through · 33244
Rural Payments Agency: Leadership and Management
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) leadership and (b) management of the Rural Payments Agency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 63 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) leadership and (b) management of the Rural Payments Agency.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
Ministers meet with the leadership and management of the Rural Payments Agency regularly.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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