Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.

The department does not hold a complete central record of all spending on equipment to support home working. Information is only centrally recorded where the individual costs exceed £500.

The department spent the following over the last three years on equipment which exceeded £500:

To obtain comprehensive data which included spend on equipment below £500 for each of the last three years, it would be necessary to contact individual teams across the department, which would not be possible within the timeframe for responding to a Written Parliamentary Question, and would incur a disproportionate cost.