Question follow-through · 17478

Home Office: Westminster Hall Sittings

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to her Department of preparing ministers to respond to Westminster Hall Debates.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 9 Jul 2026
Target answer date: 13 Jul 2026
Answer: 20 Jul 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

9 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to her Department of preparing ministers to respond to Westminster Hall Debates.
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jul 2026
Answer published
It is not possible to provide an exact cost for preparing Ministers to respond to Westminster Hall Debates. There will be differences in the costs of Civil Service, Special Adviser and Ministerial time depending on the policy matter and length of the deba...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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