Question follow-through · 26489
Department for Education: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.
4 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2026
Answer published
For the year commencing 1 April 2025, the average number of employees in the department on permanent homeworking contracts was 70, a proportion of less than 1% of the department (with an average of 8,081 employees for the same period). Staff typically hav...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Department for Education: Solar Power
7 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department (a) uses or (b) is taking steps to install rooftop solar panels on its premises.
Further Education: Lincolnshire
11 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve post-16 education and skills training provision in Lincolnshire.
Department for Education: Translation Services
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on interpreters and related translation services in 2025.