Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) women and (b) men in (i) Scotland and (ii) Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency who have made a statutory application to request flexible working.

The latest Work-life Balance Employee Survey which is available on .gov.uk shows that in 2011, 28% of women employees and 17% of male employees in Great Britain, and 17% of employees in Scotland had made a request to change their working arrangements in the last two years. The Survey does not provide the statistics for men and women at the level of Scotland, or at the level of the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency.

The survey defines working arrangements as the amount of hours worked, when these hours are worked, and where (e.g. at home).