Question follow-through · 34318
Local Government: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that council staff are unable to work from abroad.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 27 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that council staff are unable to work from abroad.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are independent employers responsible for the management of their own workforces, including where staff can work from. It is not the responsibility of central government to micromanage this. Councils are, however, expected to manage thei...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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