Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the contracted hours are for the highest paid member of staff in his Department.

The Home Office has obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation and in law generally to protect personal data.

The contractual terms and conditions for an employee are personal data between the employer and the employee as set out in the contract of employment.

We cannot therefore comment on contracted hours for an individual employee. However, all Home Office contracts of employment comply with pre-modernised or modernised Civil Service terms and conditions as laid down by Cabinet Office. Senior Civil Service contracts are governed direct by Cabinet Office.