Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Remote Working

(asked on 1st September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.


Answered by
Emma Hardy Portrait
Emma Hardy
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 8th October 2026

As of December 2025, there were 814 civil servants on home working contracts, equating to 13% of the total number of civil servants in Defra.

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