Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has notified staff to (a) tell or (b) remind them that they can sell annual leave in the last four months.

The Home Office Annual Leave policy outlines the different options available to employees in relation to managing their leave. In exceptional circumstances where an employee has been unable to take all of their annual leave as a result of unavoidable extra duties it may be possible for them to sell back some of their annual leave with the agreement of their head of unit. The amount that an employee may sell is limited under the Working Time Regulations.

The Home Office leave year runs from 1 March – 28 February. Ahead of the end of the leave year managers and employees will be reminded about the need to manage leave balances and the options available to them.