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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Remote Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
2 Jul 2025
Answer
21 Jul 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.

  2. 2 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 21 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    As was the case under the last government, the intended use of equipment purchased by civil servants is not recorded at the point of a purchase requisition being raised. This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost, although the new Go...

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