Question follow-through · 51735
Public Sector: Productivity
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of requiring full-time office working in the civil service on public sector productivity.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of requiring full-time office working in the civil service on public sector productivity.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
In October 2024, Heads of Departments across government announced that guidance on office attendance will remain in place, with most civil servants expected to spend at least 60% of their time at a Government building or on official business, such as visi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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