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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Workplace Pensions

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 20 September 2024.

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Photo of John Glen John Glen Shadow Paymaster General

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the latest estimate is of the Cash Equivalent Transfer Value of the Civil Service pension of his Department’s Second permanent Secretary and Defra group Chief Operating Officer in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Photo of Daniel Zeichner Daniel Zeichner The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The position of Second permanent Secretary and Chief Operating Officer was appointed to in July 2023 by his party. The pension cash equivalent transfer values for this position will be published in the 2023/2024 Defra Annual Report and Accounts.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 20 September 2024, cW)

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