Question follow-through · 62527

Department for Education: Remote Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
30 Jun 2025
Answer
16 Jul 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.

  2. 30 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The department does not hold a complete central record of all spending on equipment to support home working. Information is only centrally recorded where the individual costs exceed £500.The department spent the following over the last three years on equi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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