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Agricultural Wages Board

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to restore the Agricultural Workers’ Board.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 29 Aug 2025
Target answer date: 2 Sept 2025
Answer: 19 Sept 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to restore the Agricultural Workers’ Board.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2025
Answer published
We currently have no plans to restore the Agricultural Wages Board.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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