Question follow-through · 111617
Department for Education: Credit Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether they will require their department and agencies to offer payroll deductions to all employees to enable them to join a credit union.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 9 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 23 Feb 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
9 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether they will require their department and agencies to offer payroll deductions to all employees to enable them to join a credit union.
11 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Feb 2026
Answer published
The department’s financial wellbeing offer for its workforce includes access to a variety of advances including rental deposits and season ticket loans and budgeting advice. We have no current plans to introduce payroll deductions for Credit Union members...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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