Question follow-through · 27400
Ministry of Defence: Remote Working
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 7 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
7 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.
9 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2026
Answer published
As at 31 December 2025, 203 Ministry of Defence individuals within the core workforce had their work location listed as either 'tasked from home' or 'home-based' on MyHR, the Civilian HR management computer system, indicating that they had a home-based co...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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