Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of their Department’s employees work from home at least one day a week.

As a department we do not capture figures for employees working from home at least one day a week. We do however record figures for employees who attend the office. Our Hybrid working policy is minimum of 40% of their time in the office. As a department have headquarters utilisation data published here.

The Total DWP on a given day, the average figures for people who were working and were in an office are as follows: (Staff that are not working in the office, can either be working remotely or from home).

Q2 2022/23

DWP Total – 59.4%

Q3 2022/23

DWP Total – 60.3%