Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2027 to Question HL368 on Civil Servants: Remote Working, what (a) physical and (b) electronic means does (i) HMRC and (ii) HM Treasury use to monitor that civil servants are in the office on a particular day; and what steps are taken to avoid practices which may (A) disguise and (B) mislead such monitoring.

In HM Treasury, office attendance is monitored using electronic building access records generated when employees use their individually assigned security passes to access Treasury buildings. These passes are issued for security and access-control purposes. Employees are required to use their own pass when entering and leaving departmental premises and are not permitted to tailgate or otherwise bypass access controls. They are required to show their pass and to use a two-factor authentication pass system to enter the building. These measures help maintain the integrity of attendance monitoring and reduce the risk of attendance records being inaccurate or misleading