Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of helping to ensure businesses have shared spaces to facilitate creative business (a) thinking and (b) sharing.

The Government does not believe there can be a ‘one size fits all’ approach to hybrid working arrangements and employers should consider what works best for them, in consultation with their staff. Where it makes sense to do so, employers will consider the merits of utilising shared office space.