Question follow-through · 102818
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Redundancy Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2025 to Question 94728 on DEFRA: Redundancy Pay, whether the Chief Secretary to the Treasury approved the exit package of up to £350,000.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jan 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2025 to Question 94728 on DEFRA: Redundancy Pay, whether the Chief Secretary to the Treasury approved the exit package of up to £350,000.
7 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jan 2026
Answer published
Flood Re is a company limited by guarantee. It does not receive any grant funding from the Government. As such, no Government funding has been spent on exit packages at Flood Re. Under the previous Government, Flood Re was granted an exemption from the ci...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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