Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 1 May 2024.
Steve Reed
Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of mobile phone contracts for (a) Ministers and (b) staff in his Department since 2010.
Mark Spencer
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The attached table contains mobile phone contract costs for the last three financial years for staff in core Defra. Information prior to 2021-2022 is not held.
Ministers’ costs are also included in the core Defra all users totals.
PQ 23503 attachment (pdf, 42.6KB)
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