Question follow-through · 23998
Department for Transport: Facilities Agreements
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what was the total cost of facility time to the department in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25 and (c) 2025-26; and what was the headcount number of facility time staff in each; how many were 100% facility time; and wh
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what was the total cost of facility time to the department in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25 and (c) 2025-26; and what was the headcount number of facility time staff in each; how many were 100% facility time; and wh
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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8 Sept 2026
Answer published
Annual facility time returns are published at Public-sector trade union facility time data - GOV.UK for 2023/24 and 2024/25. The requirement was then removed by legislative changes. For 2025/26, the requested figures are shown in the table below:YearCost...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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