Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of their Department’s employees work from home at least one day a week.

I refer the Rt Hon Lady to the data on Civil Service headquarters occupancy which is published on Gov.UK. Although the data does not provide exact figures in response to the member’s question, data does provide the daily average staff working in the HQ building - 70 Whitehall as a percentage of staff in the office of current daily capacity.

In the Cabinet Office, we have organised our estate to make maximum use of our office space. This will mean that most people will spend time in the office each week allowing them to realise the benefits of face to face collaborative working. There will be a mix of working patterns across the department depending on business need and the job role, which means attendance at the office may be different each week.