Question follow-through · 74512

Senior Civil Servants: Training

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 29 August 2025 to Question 62335 on Senior Civil Service: Training, if he will list the external venues that have been authorised for hire since 4 April 2025; and the cost for each hire

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
4 Sept 2025
Answer
24 Sept 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 29 August 2025 to Question 62335 on Senior Civil Service: Training, if he will list the external venues that have been authorised for hire since 4 April 2025; and the cost for each hire

  2. 4 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 24 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Cabinet Office’s contract with Calder Conferences Limited to provide Venue Booking Services started in February 2023, under the previous administration. The below table lists the venues and costs of venues booked by the Cabinet Office through Calder C...

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