Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what their Departments policy is on Civil Servants in their Department working from home and receiving the London Weighting Allowance.

Department for Business and Trade’s workforce strategy to attract and retain diversity of talent includes the offer of flexible working arrangements. This includes hybrid working, which typically requires our people to spend on average 2-3 days in the office each week, with the remainder of their week working from home. London pay scales will apply if their office location is based in London. The department employs a small number of people who are on home working contracts, which are agreed in exceptional circumstances only.

London pay scales will apply if they are living in the London area.