Question follow-through · 75936
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Flags
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many days the Union Flag was flown on her Department's main buildings in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025 to date.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many days the Union Flag was flown on her Department's main buildings in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025 to date.
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Department is a customer of the Government Property Agency in its office locations, and the Agency is responsible for the flying of flags, including when the Union Flag is flown. The Department does not therefore keep a record of this.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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