Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the contracted hours are for the highest paid member of staff in his Department.

Senior Civil Servants are contracted to work a minimum (over a 5 day week) of either 41 or 42 hours, including daily meal breaks for one hour.

The new model contract was introduced on 1 July 2013. This standardises working hours to 42 hours. This was applicable to all new staff as well as those staff being promoted into or within the Senior Civil Service, from that date forward.