Question follow-through · 43115
Environment Agency: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department’s publication entitled Defra: spending over £500, January 2025, published on 21 March 2025, what the Environment Agency purchased from VAT: GB 69544938
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department’s publication entitled Defra: spending over £500, January 2025, published on 21 March 2025, what the Environment Agency purchased from VAT: GB 69544938
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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30 Apr 2025
Answer published
On 14 January 2025, the Environment Agency purchased training for qualifying staff who hold a professional qualification provided by the Institute of Asset Management. The training was provided by Asset Management Consulting Limited, described on the publ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Civil Servants: Surveys
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Environment Protection: Public Bodies
14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether there is a consolidated public list of each (a) public authority and (b) private body with public functions that is subject to the Environmental Information Regulations.
Animal Housing and Animal Welfare: Licensing
22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to introducing licensing for (a) animal sanctuaries and (b) rescue and rehoming centres for (i) cats, (ii) dogs, (iii) horses and (iv) other animals.
Animal Welfare: Licensing
22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to publish the findings of stakeholder engagement carried out by his Department on the potential licensing of animal rescue centres in 2023.
Animal Welfare: Licensing
22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of regulations in relation to unlicensed animal rescue centres; and whether he plans to consult on new licensing of registration requirement
Animal Welfare: Licensing
22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has had discussions with the Charity Commission on improving (a) information sharing and (b) oversight of animal rescue organisations operating at scale but outs
Animal Welfare: Licensing
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Fly-tipping
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Animal Welfare: Licensing
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterparts in the (a) Scottish, (b) Welsh and (c) Northern Irish governments on the potential merits of extending licensing requirement
Animal Welfare: Licensing
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of rehoming (a) organisations and (b) centres that are operating (i) with and (ii) without a licence.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written Questions
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish his Department's style guide for answering written Parliamentary questions; and if he will publish (a) the style guide that was in use on and (b) any other style gui
Animal Welfare: Scotland
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