It has been the practice of successive governments not to comment, on grounds of both national security and staff safety, on the physical capacity or staffing numbers for individual buildings of the government estate.

The Department has provided the number of individuals recorded as attending the office on the specified date, Friday 19 June. This figure is not directly comparable to headcount figures, as headcount does not take account of individual working patterns, part-time arrangements, or scheduled periods of leave.

The table includes both the number of employees attending their assigned office and the total number of visits to each office. As staff are able to attend any departmental office, total visits may include employees whose assigned office is elsewhere, while some employees may have attended an office other than their assigned location. In addition, the figures do not account for employees who were undertaking external visits or other work-related activity away from a departmental office on that day.

The Department has provided the number of individuals recorded as attending the office on the specified date, Friday 19 June. This figure is not directly comparable to headcount figures, as headcount does not take account of individual working patterns, part-time arrangements, or scheduled periods of leave.

The table includes both the number of employees attending their assigned office and the total number of visits to each office. As staff are able to attend any departmental office, total visits may include employees whose assigned office is elsewhere, while some employees may have attended an office other than their assigned location. In addition, the figures do not account for employees who were undertaking external visits or other work-related activity away from a departmental office on that day.

Based on Wi-Fi access data, 295 individuals were recorded working from our 2 Marsham Street office on Friday 29 May 2026. This figure is slightly lower than typical levels, reflecting reduced attendance during the half-term period.

At 31^st May 2026 there were 2041 (1991.6FTE) payroll active employees assigned to our 2 Marsham street office in London.

We hold the information, but collating it and calculating an accurate percentage would exceed our cost limits.

The Government intends to introduce the Automated Passenger Services (APS) permitting scheme in Spring 2026 to regulate self-driving taxi-and private-hire-like and bus-like services.

Self-driving vehicles intended for use within a commercial APS fleet will need to undergo an assessment, by the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA), to demonstrate that they can safely drive themselves at all times.

The initial roll-out of automated services is expected to be more small-scale, and we anticipate that automated services can complement human-driven services.

My Department is committed to ensuring that public transport workers are safe at work. As transport in London is devolved, it is for the Mayor of London and Transport for London (TfL) to work with the British Transport Police (BTP) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to ensure the physical safety of their workers is maintained.

BTP continue to take robust action to ensure the physical safety of rail workers in London, including Romford. Their approach is intelligence led, focusing resources on areas and individuals identified through crime data and repeat offending patterns. They work closely with TfL and other rail operators to improve incident reporting, to ensure that all forms of abuse, whether physical, verbal or threatening, are recorded. This partnership strengthens intelligence and enables more effective operational planning.

The Home Office regularly meets with the Mayor of London and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to discuss policing issues facing the capital.

This year (2025/26), the Metropolitan Police Service will receive a total of up to £3.8 billion of funding, as set out in the police funding settlement. This is a £262.1 million increase when compared with the 2024-25 settlement, equating to a 7.4% cash increase and 4.9% real terms increase. There will also be a £65 million increase to the National and International Capital City grant to reflect the challenges faced in London.

Forces are operationally independent, and it is for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to make local operational decisions on how best to deploy officers and staff to secure public safety. However, the Government is committed to restoring neighbourhood policing to local communities through the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee. In 2025/26 the Metropolitan Police Service was allocated £45,639,456 and has set out a delivery plan to grow neighbourhood policing this year by 420 (FTE) police officers and 50 (FTE) Police Community Support Officers.

Any long-term changes or concessions made to rail fares policy will require balancing against the potential impacts on passengers, taxpayers and the railway.

There are no current plans to review concessions in advance of the transition to Great British Railways, but it will have the opportunity to take a fresh look at the justification of the eligibility and restrictions of concessionary schemes.

The Department for Business and Trade does not use zero hours contracts for staff or contractors. Civil Servants are employed either as Senior Civil Servants or as one of the Delegated Grades with salaries determined by the relevant pay bands. The Department does not pay any staff or contractors less than the London living wage and this applies to staff based in London and Nationally. Please see the tables below for our current National and London pay scales for Delegated Grades.

DBT pay bands 2024/25 - London

DBT pay bands 2024/25 - National

The department has noted the analysis by Savill’s and has regular engagement with councils, including in London.

The department does not economically regulate local authority registered providers’ HRA finances but does work with local authorities and representative bodies to examine the problems that are common to all landlords, and to gain intelligence from practitioners on measures that have been taken locally, and how these might be adapted to the wider environment. Nonetheless, it is for councils to meet their statutory responsibilities to keep their homes to a safe, decent standard. The revised consumer standards and changes to the role of the Regulator of Social Housing will help to ensure that happens. Local authorities have wide discretion on how to prioritise their spending within the HRA to meet their statutory and other commitments.

The regulatory changes which come into effect on 1 April have been assessed to be affordable to the sector. Impact assessments were published for the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023, the publication of the revised consumer standards, and for the ongoing consultation on competence and conduct requirements. All future regulatory changes, including to the Decent Homes Standard, will also be subject to consultation and impact assessment.

The impact assessment for the revised consumer standards can be found here: Annex 5: Regulatory impact assessment, and the draft impact assessment for competence and conduct requirements is available here: Annex C: Impact assessment.

Four officials are working on conference planning, amongst other international energy priorities. As such, it is not possible to isolate the time spent on conference planning.

We do not currently have a national mechanism to capture and report incidents of assaults against LGBQT+ staff members in primary care settings. Data is held at a local level. At a national level, data on self-reported violent incidents is gathered from the 2022 NHS Staff Survey.

NHS England has commissioned a number of data insight workstreams to better understand the current landscape of statistics, data reporting and associated challenges. This includes a national review of all available data and intelligence sources and an analysis of the costs of violence to the health care system in England and a review of the impact on the safety and wellbeing of NHS staff.

The Human Resources system for National Health Service trusts does not hold data on the number of neuroscience staff, as there are a wide range of NHS staff who provide care for neurological conditions and neurosensory support.

There were 200 full-time equivalent (FTE) doctors working in neurology in the NHS North Central London Integrated Care System. This includes 96 FTE consultants. There were also 63 FTE scientific, therapeutic and technical staff working in neurosensory sciences.

The Department does not hold the requested information on vacancy rates.