Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what is the percentage office workplace attendance requirement in each of the department’s offices, broken down by location; and whether attendance statistics are collated for each of those individual offices.

The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (“BIST”) applies a consistent departmental workplace attendance expectation across its office estate. Delegated grade staff are expected to spend 40% of their time in the office while Senior Civil Servants and Early Careers colleagues are expected to attend 60% of the time.

BIST continues to operate a self-reporting attendance tool for staff from the former Department for Business and Trade (“DBT”) following recent Machinery of Government change. We have not yet finalised a position on future attendance reporting for all staff across the new Department.