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date	20/04/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Remote Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff of her Department have formal arrangements to work from home during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	37720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2020 answer text <p>Working from home data is not recorded on our HR systems. However, the number of staff logging into the Department’s computer system via a secure remote connection shows that approximately 20% of staff were working from home.</p><p> </p><p>We have now provided an additional 6656 computers to enable working from home; we will deploy a further 6,000 in the next fortnight.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 28/04/2020 17:54:58 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1188219

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to re-deploy staff of her Department to assist with processing new applications for social security benefits during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	37721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2020 answer text <p>Our priority as a Department is ensuring people get their benefit payments and that we can continue to support those who need us the most.</p><p> </p><p>We are re-deploying over 10,000 staff to critical frontline services as well as recruiting additional staff to support this priority.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 28/04/2020 13:41:35 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier