Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not offer permanent home-working contracts at the point of recruitment, with employees having a contractual base location at an MoJ office or property.

In limited circumstances, contractual homeworking arrangements may be agreed, including as a reasonable adjustment, and some employees may have transferred into the Department on protected terms which include homeworking. This is distinct from the MoJ’s hybrid working arrangements, under which employees may work both from home and in the workplace without their home being their contractual work location.

The MoJ remains committed to flexible working and the business benefits that it offers, including supporting the Civil Service priority of ensuring continued, effective and productive delivery of the work carried out by civil servants across the full range of services.

Whether an individual is employed on a permanent home-working contract is not reliably recorded on the Department's central HR system. The number and proportion of employees on such contracts in 2025 is therefore not held centrally.