The Cabinet Office remains committed to flexible working and the business benefits that it offers. We expect that most of our staff will be able to work both from home and in the workplace as part of an informal, non-contractual hybrid working arrangement. This is agreed and arranged with staff members individually.

As of 31st August 2026 there are 128 staff members (121.6 FTE) in the Cabinet Office who are on home working contracts.

Cabinet Office staff may apply for permission to temporarily work remotely overseas in exceptional circumstances. Examples of this might include when accompanying a Civil Service or Armed Forces partner on an official posting.

The GPA does not monitor attendance of its staff at buildings. Gov Pass can obtain the data when looking at building occupancy at any point in time but this data is not broken down to the level of specific staff member identification.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) had fewer than five employees (less than 1% of the workforce) designated as contractual permanent homeworkers in 2025.

The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) requires staff to attend the workplace for a minimum of 60% of their contracted working time, in line with the Civil Service office attendance expectation. The AGO operates from a single office location in London. Attendance data is collated at a departmental level.

As the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is a geographically dispersed organisation with staff working across offices, courts, police stations and other government departments' buildings, local leadership provide assurance of compliance with CPS’s hybrid working policy and conduct local monitoring, but attendance statistics are not specifically collated at a national level.

The Government Legal Department (GLD), irrespective of site, has a 60% attendance expectation, but we do not currently collect attendance statistics for each of our individual sites.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) requires 40% workplace attendance, which is an exception to the Cabinet Office guidance for 60% occupancy. This is due to the SFO having reduced its space at its current office (Canada House) based on 40% attendance and secured space in its new office (Cabot Square, Canary Wharf) based on the same. The SFO operates from a single office site, currently at Canada House and is set to move to Cabot Square before the end of the financial year. However, employees also work from other locations, including court or across the country when conducting executive action. Attendance is currently managed locally by line managers and statistics are not collated automatically.

For HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI), the nature of the work is such that inspectors are frequently “on-site” for inspection work in the offices of those they inspect. HMCPSI staff meet at both the London and York offices regularly for inspection and other meetings as per their inspection methodology as business need dictates. All staff are required to attend a mandated office day once a month as well as all staff days and all-inspector days, which are mandated, in addition to the above. Central attendance statistics are not collated for either office by HMCPSI as they share space in both locations with other departments.

Hybrid working is a non-contractual arrangement subject to local business need and role requirements. Where hybrid working can be accommodated, employees should work an average of at least 60% of their contracted working hours from their Home Office workplace unless they have a temporary or permanent arrangement to do otherwise. The time spent in the workplace is averaged out over a period of up to three months. The policy is location agnostic, and the Home Office does not record attendance by location.

The number of staff with a homeworking contract is 1742, and represents 3.4% of the total members of staff working in the Home Office.

The department does not have records of any Contractual home workers.

The Cabinet Office, including the Government Property Agency as one of its Executive Agencies, does not centrally collect or hold data on average workplace attendance. The monitoring of office attendance remains the responsibility of individuals, line managers and business units. Line Managers are expected to be aware of, and ensure compliance with, the minimum 60% expectation for their direct reports.

The Cabinet Office does not centrally collect or hold data on average workplace attendance. The monitoring of office attendance remains the responsibility of individuals, line managers and business units. Line Managers are expected to be aware of, and ensure compliance with, the minimum 60% expectation for their direct reports.

For the year commencing 1 April 2025, the average number of employees in the department on permanent homeworking contracts was 70, a proportion of less than 1% of the department (with an average of 8,081 employees for the same period).

Staff typically have a permanent homeworking contract either for historical reasons (such as a contractual right that was preserved on TUPE transferring in to the department) or as a reasonable adjustment under the Employment Rights Act.

The Department does not currently apply a 60% workplace attendance expectation in Darlington due to office capacity and associated health and safety considerations. The Darlington office has 167 colleagues assigned to it, while 30 desks are contractually allocated for departmental use. Whilst colleagues may make use of other available workstations within the building, these are not guaranteed to be available. The current attendance expectation has therefore been set at a level that reflects the office's available capacity and ensures a safe working environment. The Department keeps attendance expectations under review and will consider changes where capacity permits.

The office workplace attendance requirement is a minimum of 40% at all the Department’s office locations.

The Department collates anonymised and aggregated occupancy statistics for some of its locations:

Belfast – Erskine House

Darlington – Feethams House

Edinburgh – Queen Elizabeth House

Leeds – 7-8 Wellington Place

London – 55 Whitehall & 3-8 Whitehall Place.

Additionally, the Department provides quarterly data to the Cabinet Office for its main London building, showing average building occupancy for each month in the quarter. This is published on GOV.UK.

Flexible Season Tickets were introduced to support flexible commuting patterns and provide eight days’ travel within a 28-day period.

The Department has previously published its Evaluation of the Flexible Season Rail Ticket which considered whether Flexible Season Tickets supported hybrid and part-time commuting patterns, encouraged demand, retained passengers and provided value to people whose travel needs had changed.

Passengers were generally very supportive of the product, whether they use it or not, noting, in particular, that it provides a better option for part-time workers and meets the needs of new commuting patterns.

We will ask DfTOperator and in due course GBR to review the continuing cost-effectiveness of Flexible Season Tickets as part of its wider work to ensure that fares and ticketing continue to reflect changing travel patterns and passenger needs.

This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

For employees from EA to Grade 6, the department expects staff to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office or another work setting, while SCS employees are expected to spend between 60% and 100% of their working time in the office or another work setting. Limited exceptions may be agreed by line managers in exceptional circumstances. Office attendance expectations apply across all departmental office locations. The department does not centrally collate attendance statistics for individual offices.

The Northern Ireland Office follows the cross Civil Service expectation that all staff spend at least 60% of their time at a Government building or on official business, such as visiting stakeholders, unless they have an agreed workplace adjustment or other exception. Following a search of our records, we have established that the information you requested is not held by the Northern Ireland Office. Deputy Directors monitor records of team office attendance and therefore data is not held centrally.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has implemented Government direction on increased workplace attendance. For office-based workers, an average of at least 60% of time is spent in the workplace. No central record of agreed working locations is held and thus attendance statistics for individual offices would only be available at disproportionate cost. However, in common with other Government Departments, the MOD does report its Headquarters’ building occupancy figure each quarter and this can be found at the following website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-hq-occupancy-data

The Government recognises that travel patterns have changed in recent years and is committed to ensuring fares and ticketing systems adapt so that passengers can travel affordably and flexibly. Flexible Season Tickets were introduced to support flexible commuting patterns and provide eight days’ travel within a 28-day period.

Through Great British Railways, passengers will benefit from a more consistent offer across the network, with reforms to simplify fares, expand Pay As You Go ticketing and make rail travel better suited to modern travel patterns, while balancing affordability for passengers with value for taxpayers.

Staff are expected, unless otherwise agreed as a contractual variation or a temporary exception, to attend their principal workplace for a minimum of 60% of their working time each month. This requirement applies across the Department's offices, although some roles may require higher levels of workplace attendance.

Attendance data is collated and monitored at individual office level.

The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (“BIST”) applies a consistent departmental workplace attendance expectation across its office estate. Delegated grade staff are expected to spend 40% of their time in the office while Senior Civil Servants and Early Careers colleagues are expected to attend 60% of the time.

BIST continues to operate a self-reporting attendance tool for staff from the former Department for Business and Trade (“DBT”) following recent Machinery of Government change. We have not yet finalised a position on future attendance reporting for all staff across the new Department.