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Ministry of Defence: Facilities Agreements

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 8 September 2026UIN 24001

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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 Ministry of Defence

Information on trade union facility time in the public sector, including the Ministry of Defence, for 2023-24 and 2024-25 is published at the following website: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/public-sector-trade-union-facility-time-data. The Employment Rights Act 2025 repealed the statutory requirement for public sector bodies to collect and publish trade union facility time data before the end of the 2025–26 reporting period and thus information for the most recent period is not available.

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