Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Remote Working
(asked on 2nd July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in her Department have permission to work remotely outside the UK; and in which countries those staff are based.
Answered by
Stephanie Peacock
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
DCMS does not allow any staff to work remotely outside of the UK on a permanent basis.
Staff may be given time-limited permission to work overseas. Short term overseas approval granted from 1st January - 4th July 2025 are as follows:
Travelling for business reasons: 103 instances
Accompanying a spouse on an overseas military posting: 0 instances
On-call during annual leave: 12 instances
Temporary short term remote working overseas: 9 instances