Question follow-through · 65710
British Business Bank: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the British Business Bank has spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the British Business Bank has spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2025
Answer published
The British Business Bank has spent the following on equipment for safe and productive home working:(i) 2022-23 = N/A(ii) 2023-24 = £9,697(iii) 2024-25 = £7,857This includes home working equipment such as desks, chairs, monitors, keyboards and mice. This ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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