To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people in her Department have been allowed to work from home for part of the week in the last year; and if she will make a statement on her Department’s policy on home working. (143888)

DCMS has 16 members of staff currently working from home on a regular basis. In DCMS there is an arrangement where staff work part of their hours from home. At present we are only able to support a limited number of formal home-working arrangements. However, we also support and encourage the more informal home-working arrangements in which staff may have agreed to work from home on an occasional ad-hoc basis.