To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 2 July 2008, Official Report, column 937W, on departmental home working, if he will make it his policy to collate and maintain central records of all home working by his Department's staff. (222474)

The Department already maintains central records of staff who are members of its official home working scheme. We do not intend to extend recording to cover staff who work at home on an occasional basis, at management discretion.