Question follow-through · 68343

Intellectual Property Office: Remote Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much the Intellectual Property Office has spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.

answeredDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology

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Answering body
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Tabled
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
21 Jul 2025
Answer
24 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much the Intellectual Property Office has spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.

  2. 21 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Intellectual Property Office does not hold a complete central record of all spending on equipment to support home working as provision can be made utilising office surplus or stock equipment. Information is only centrally recorded where the individual...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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