To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2024 to Question 11394 on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ministers' Private Offices, what the cost of each refurbishment was.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
23 February 2024
The creation of a Minister’s office for an additional appointment in January 2022 cost a total of £635 exclusive of VAT.
The provision of an ergonomic chair for a health and safety workplace adjustment in September 2022 cost a total of £1,000 exclusive of VAT.
The provision and installation of three whiteboards in November 2022 came to £2,139.42 exclusive of VAT.
In January 2023 the creation, including outfitting, of a new Departmental media suite came to £22,075.99 exclusive of VAT.
For the repair and replacement of upholstery of 14 meeting room chairs which had significant wear since their original purchase in 1997 cost a total of £3,450 exclusive of VAT.
The creation of a Minister’s office for an additional appointment in December 2023 cost a total of £655.89 exclusive of VAT.
Limited remedial work, including a localised repaint and filling on of screw holes, on an office wall due to the removal of a pre-existing whiteboard in December 2023 was not charged as those works were covered under the landlord’s Life Cycle Fund.