Asked by: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to encourage a reduction in remote working as part of their growth strategy.
Answered by Baroness Lloyd of Effra - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
Flexible working can lead to happier, healthier and more productive employees. This is good for workers and good for businesses.
Businesses can reject requests for remote working on business grounds, set out in legislation, including high costs or limited ability to meet customer demand.
Changes through the Employment Rights Act will encourage conversations between employers and employees about where flexibility might be possible.
In 2025, we published our modern Industrial Strategy which will support creating good jobs and higher incomes across the country, including £1.2 billion of additional investment in skills per year by 2028-29.
Asked by: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to investigate whether Fujitsu staff had unauthorised access to the Post Office’s Horizon software system; and, if so, whether there have been any alleged cases of fraud or theft of Post Office funds by Fujitsu staff.
Answered by Lord Offord of Garvel
The independent Post Office Horizon Inquiry was set up – and put on a statutory footing - to review all the evidence to establish a clear account of the implementation and failings of Horizon so that a scandal like this does not happen again.
Until Sir Wyn’s work is completed, and all the evidence is known, it would be premature for me to comment on every aspect of this scandal alongside this inquiry which is there to get to the bottom of the facts.