Question follow-through · 64656
Department for Business and Trade: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff in his Department have permission to work remotely outside the UK; and in which countries those staff are based.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 2 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff in his Department have permission to work remotely outside the UK; and in which countries those staff are based.
4 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jul 2025
Answer published
Standard DBT policy is that staff should not normally be allowed to work remotely overseas however the department do permit this under exceptional personal circumstances and following/preceding a period of annual leave when visiting family or friends over...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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