Question follow-through · 56258
Department for Work and Pensions: Flexible Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make assessment of the potential merits of flexible working in her Department.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make assessment of the potential merits of flexible working in her Department.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2025
Answer published
DWP recognises the potential merits of flexible working and has experience over decades of offering and allowing a variety of flexibilities. Flexible working hours, compressed hours, part-time hours, part-year working and partial retirement are firmly est...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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