Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Civil Service headquarters occupancy data, updated on 1 June 2022, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of occupancy rates on her Department's performance during May 2023.

Occupancy rates averaged 61% in May, and during this period, the performance and regular activity of the Department continued as usual.

Occupancy data for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is based upon our Departmental HQ building only and does not capture employees working in our other locations, or remotely. Our data accounts for DCMS staff who have recently joined the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, as a part of the Machinery of Government changes in February 2023, as we remain in the agreed transitional period.