Question follow-through · 128647
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a list of training programmes used by civil servants in her Department since 2020.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a list of training programmes used by civil servants in her Department since 2020.
23 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2026
Answer published
A list of training undertaken via the Civil-Service Learning Frameworks from January 2023 to March 2026, and course descriptors, are available via the Prospectus Online. Training data relating to the period prior to January 2023 is not accessible to the d...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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