Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average office attendance rate was for staff in (a) HM Treasury and (b) HM Revenue and Customs for each of the past three calendar years.

HM Treasury's office attendance policy applies across all of its office locations. Employees are expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in their contractual workplace, unless alternative arrangements have been agreed through workplace adjustments.

Line managers are responsible for supporting and monitoring compliance with the department's office attendance expectations. Attendance data is not collated for individual offices as anonymised, aggregated building access data is used to understand overall occupancy levels and does not identify individual members of staff. HMT is currently reviewing its attendance monitoring regime in order to improve its accuracy.

Under HM Revenue and Customs’ attendance monitoring regime, they are only able to provide the latest validated individual attendance rate data which cover the last two years, Sept 2024 – August 26.

September 24 - August 25: 78.5% of colleagues met their office attendance expectation.

September 25 - August 26: 85.6% of colleagues met their office attendance expectation.