Question follow-through · 114463
Department for Business and Trade: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of staff in the Department have (a) office-based, (b) hybrid and (c) remote-working contracts.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 20 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 2 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of staff in the Department have (a) office-based, (b) hybrid and (c) remote-working contracts.
24 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Mar 2026
Answer published
As of 31 January 2026,A) Office-based working contracts - 5,646 employees, representing 96.9% of the overall domestic civil servants in payroll.B) Hybrid working contracts – noneC) Remoting working contracts – 179 employees representing 3.1% of the overal...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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