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Ministry of Justice: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of staff in his Department have (a) office-based, (b) hybrid and (c) remote-working contracts.

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
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 Justice, what proportion of staff in his 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
The Ministry of Justice does not offer remote or hybrid working contracts at the point of recruitment, with all employees having one of the Department’s offices or properties as a contractual base location.Hybrid working is an informal, non-contractual ar...

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