Question follow-through · 9603
Department for Business and Trade: Flexible Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of full-time staff on full pay (1.0 FTE) in his Department work compressed hours over a four day week.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 15 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of full-time staff on full pay (1.0 FTE) in his Department work compressed hours over a four day week.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2026
Answer published
There is no central record of how many full-time staff who work compressed hours in DBT. Compressed hours is a type of flexible working. All staff in DBT are entitled to request flexible working arrangement under the terms of our Flexible Working Policy. ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Facilities Agreements
9 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether ACAS intends to update the ACAS Code of Practice on facility time.