Flexible Working
(asked on 19th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
The Department for Communities and Local Government offers a range of flexible working patterns and other combinations of working patterns that allow employees to maintain a good work/life balance.
At the 31 October 2014 the working pattern breakdown of DCLG staff is shown in the table below:
* | Total Staff | % | Female | Male | ||
No of Staff | 1677 | 100% | 850 | 50.7% | 827 | 49.3% |
No of Staff on Flexible Working Patterns (including Part Time) | 262 | 15.6% | 222 | 84.7% | 40 | 15.3% |
No of Staff on Part Time Hours | 205 | 12.2% | 179 | 87.3% | 26 | 12.7% |
No of Full Time Staff on Flexible Working Hours | 57 | 3.4% | 43 | 75.4% | 14 | 24.6% |
* Data as at 31/10/2014
An application would only be rejected where there is a clear business case that shows granting the application would be impracticable and inefficient. The specific grounds of the rejection would be stated with an explanation of how it applies to the applicant’s circumstances.