Department for Transport: Facilities Agreements
The question
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 whether funding was provided for trade union activities in each of those years.
Answered by Department for Transport
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:
Year | Cost of facility time | Union reps (total) | Union reps (FTE) | 100% fac. time | Funding for TUA |
2025-26 | £169,125.95 | 121 | 114.63 | 0 | No |
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