Question follow-through · 63516
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
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 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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