To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills pursuant to the answer of 2 July 2008, Official Report, column 990W, on departmental home working, if he will make it his policy to collate and maintain central records of home working by his Department's staff. (222537)

Information on staff employed contractually as home workers is maintained. However, some staff opt to work from home on an ad-hoc basis and these arrangements are agreed locally between the manager and individual. Information on these ad hoc home working arrangements will not be collated centrally.