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<p>The Ministry of Defence recognises that it is more likely to attract and retain
high calibre staff if it allows its civilian employees to create a good work-life
balance. The Department therefore strongly encourages managers to meet requests for
non standard working patterns from all civilian staff wherever business requirements
allow. Many such requests are agreed at a local level on a non-statutory basis. The
Department holds information on those statutory requests for flexible working which
have been approved from 1 September 2011. Since that date, some 125 women and 30 men
have had their statutory requests approved. However, information on applications which
have been rejected is not held centrally. It is therefore not possible to state the
total number of statutory applications made.</p>
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