Department for Health and Social Care: Remote Working
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department permits civil servants employed in the UK to work from overseas on a regular basis.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The Department does not permit civil servants to work overseas on a regular basis. The Department has a policy for staff to work remotely overseas for short defined periods of time if travelling on official business, where there is a critical business need or unforeseen personal circumstance that require them to work while outside of the United Kingdom. All requests for international working are considered on a case‑by‑case basis, balancing a clear business need against security risks, with approval granted only where those risks can be appropriately mitigated.
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