Question follow-through · 40592
Health Professions: Working Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what delegated flexibilities are available to her Department for calculating (a) working hours and (b) actual hours worked.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what delegated flexibilities are available to her Department for calculating (a) working hours and (b) actual hours worked.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
Terms and conditions of employment outside the Senior Civil Service are delegated to departments but must be managed in the public interest and in accordance with the Civil Service Management Code, and through consultation with the Cabinet Office and His ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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