diff --git a/opencl/source/api/api.cpp b/opencl/source/api/api.cpp
index 809df7376a..49fbf13e90 100644
--- a/opencl/source/api/api.cpp
+++ b/opencl/source/api/api.cpp
@@ -2012,6 +2012,7 @@ cl_int CL_API_CALL clGetEventInfo(cl_event event,
     }
 
     GetInfoHelper info(paramValue, paramValueSize, paramValueSizeRet);
+    auto flushEvents = true;
 
     switch (paramName) {
     default: {
@@ -2041,7 +2042,13 @@ cl_int CL_API_CALL clGetEventInfo(cl_event event,
         TRACING_EXIT(clGetEventInfo, &retVal);
         return retVal;
     case CL_EVENT_COMMAND_EXECUTION_STATUS:
-        neoEvent->tryFlushEvent();
+        if (DebugManager.flags.SkipFlushingEventsOnGetStatusCalls.get()) {
+            flushEvents = false;
+        }
+        if (flushEvents) {
+            neoEvent->tryFlushEvent();
+        }
+
         if (neoEvent->isUserEvent()) {
             auto executionStatus = neoEvent->peekExecutionStatus();
             //Spec requires initial state to be queued
diff --git a/opencl/test/unit_test/event/user_events_tests.cpp b/opencl/test/unit_test/event/user_events_tests.cpp
index 00c086ccf7..4218bbe2ca 100644
--- a/opencl/test/unit_test/event/user_events_tests.cpp
+++ b/opencl/test/unit_test/event/user_events_tests.cpp
@@ -539,6 +539,32 @@ TEST_F(MockEventTests, GivenAbortedUserEventWhenEnqueingNdrThenDoNotFlushToCsr)
     EXPECT_EQ(CL_SUCCESS, retVal);
 }
 
+TEST_F(MockEventTests, givenDebugVariableWhenStatusIsQueriedThenNoFlushHappens) {
+    DebugManagerStateRestore restorer;
+    DebugManager.flags.SkipFlushingEventsOnGetStatusCalls.set(1);
+    DebugManager.flags.PerformImplicitFlushForNewResource.set(0);
+    DebugManager.flags.PerformImplicitFlushForIdleGpu.set(0);
+
+    auto &csr = pCmdQ->getGpgpuCommandStreamReceiver();
+    csr.overrideDispatchPolicy(DispatchMode::BatchedDispatch);
+    csr.postInitFlagsSetup();
+
+    cl_event retEvent = nullptr;
+
+    auto latestFlushed = csr.peekLatestFlushedTaskCount();
+    retVal = callOneWorkItemNDRKernel(nullptr, 0u, &retEvent);
+    EXPECT_EQ(CL_SUCCESS, retVal);
+
+    cl_int eventStatus = 0;
+    retVal = clGetEventInfo(retEvent, CL_EVENT_COMMAND_EXECUTION_STATUS, sizeof(cl_int), &eventStatus, NULL);
+    EXPECT_EQ(CL_SUCCESS, retVal);
+
+    EXPECT_EQ(csr.peekLatestFlushedTaskCount(), latestFlushed);
+
+    retVal = clReleaseEvent(retEvent);
+    EXPECT_EQ(CL_SUCCESS, retVal);
+}
+
 TEST_F(MockEventTests, GivenAbortedParentWhenDestroyingChildEventThenDoNotProcessBlockedCommands) {
     uEvent = make_releaseable<UserEvent>(context);
 
diff --git a/opencl/test/unit_test/test_files/igdrcl.config b/opencl/test/unit_test/test_files/igdrcl.config
index bfaa187523..7f2a9d472a 100644
--- a/opencl/test/unit_test/test_files/igdrcl.config
+++ b/opencl/test/unit_test/test_files/igdrcl.config
@@ -308,4 +308,5 @@ OverrideCmdQueueSynchronousMode = -1
 HBMSizePerTileInGigabytes = 0
 OverrideSystolicPipelineSelect = -1
 OverrideSystolicInComputeWalker = -1
-OverrideKernelSizeLimitForSmallDispatch = -1
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+OverrideKernelSizeLimitForSmallDispatch = -1
+SkipFlushingEventsOnGetStatusCalls = 0
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diff --git a/shared/source/debug_settings/debug_variables_base.inl b/shared/source/debug_settings/debug_variables_base.inl
index ee346c2b1b..17c8286492 100644
--- a/shared/source/debug_settings/debug_variables_base.inl
+++ b/shared/source/debug_settings/debug_variables_base.inl
@@ -326,3 +326,4 @@ DECLARE_DEBUG_VARIABLE(bool, ForcePerDssBackedBufferProgramming, false, "Always
 DECLARE_DEBUG_VARIABLE(bool, UseCommandBufferHeaderSizeForWddmQueueSubmission, true, "0: Page size (4096), 1: sizeof(COMMAND_BUFFER_HEADER)")
 DECLARE_DEBUG_VARIABLE(bool, DisableDeepBind, false, "Disable passing RTLD_DEEPBIND flag to all dlopen calls.")
 DECLARE_DEBUG_VARIABLE(bool, UseUmKmDataTranslator, false, "Use helper library for UMD<->KMD (WDDM) struct layout compatibility")
+DECLARE_DEBUG_VARIABLE(bool, SkipFlushingEventsOnGetStatusCalls, false, "When set to 1, events are not causing internal flush when querying for CL_EVENT_COMMAND_EXECUTION_STATUS")
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