To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the attendance of civil servants in his Department as a proportion of assigned workforce to each building.
Answered on
9 June 2025
Central data on Civil Service Headquarters (HQ) occupancy is collected and published quarterly on GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-hq-occupancy-data for all HQ buildings of Whitehall Departments, Office for Scotland, Office for Wales and Northern Ireland Office. This includes data for the Cabinet Office.
As was the case under the previous administration, no other information on workforce attendance is gathered centrally.
Heads of department have agreed that 60% minimum office attendance for most staff continues to be the best balance of working for the Civil Service.