Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when staff of his Department will be required to return to the office as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.

The department has continued to deliver priority activity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic using a combination of workplace and home working. Almost a quarter of Home Office staff have been attending their designated workplace over the course of the pandemic.

As the pandemic has progressed, the department has returned some staff to the workplace inline with Covid secure guidance. We will continue to return staff to our workplaces up to the building capacity our COVID secure risk assessments permit.