Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Education and Skills Funding Agency spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.

The department and its executive agencies, including the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), only provide equipment for home working in the case of a workplace adjustment related to a disability and which the Equality Act requires us to support.

Departmental spend over the last three years, which includes ESFA spend, on equipment which exceeded £500:

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