Question follow-through · 124350
Horticulture: Employment and Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of garden centres on local employment and skills training; and what steps he is taking to support that sector.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 17 Apr 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of garden centres on local employment and skills training; and what steps he is taking to support that sector.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Department has not made a specific assessment of the potential impact of garden centres on local employment and skills training. However, garden centres operate across retail and horticulture and can benefit from the government’s wider support for wor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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