Question follow-through · 93825
Horticulture and Parks: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure adequate skills in local authorities to develop horticulture and parks.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure adequate skills in local authorities to develop horticulture and parks.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to working in partnership with local authorities, industry, further education institutions, and training providers to strengthen skills and support jobs across the farming sector, including the horticulture sector, ensuring bus...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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