Question follow-through · 71948

Northern Ireland Office: Flexible Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of staff in his Department have flexible working arrangements; and how many of those work compressed hours.

answeredNorthern Ireland Office

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Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
3 Sept 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of staff in his Department have flexible working arrangements; and how many of those work compressed hours.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    At the Northern Ireland Office, flexible working requests are submitted directly to line managers for discussion and approval. The department does not maintain data centrally on the number of staff working compressed hours.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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