Scotland Office: Facilities Agreements

(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source

Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, 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 whether funding was provided for trade union activities in each of those years.


Answered by
Melanie Ward Portrait
Melanie Ward
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Scotland Office)
This question was answered on 8th September 2026

The total cost to the Scotland Office of facility time in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25 and (c) 2025-26 was nil, with no headcount number of facility staff time in either of the years requested. No funding was provided for trade union activities in any of those years.

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