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Civil Service: Location

Answer

The Government are making strong progress towards its original relocations target of 20,000 posts by 31 March 2010. Budget 2009 announced that 19,090 posts have been relocated already. The following table shows each Department's contribution:

Department	Number of posts
Education and Skills	785
Health	975
Home Office	2,894
Ministry of Justice (formerly DCA)	772
Defence	3,851
Culture, Media and Sport	867
Work and Pensions	4,223
Chancellor's Departments	3,287
Others	1,436
Cabinet Office¹	66
Communities and Local Government (formerly ODPM)	220
Crown Prosecution Service²	43
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	403
Foreign and Commonwealth Office³	331
International Development	88
Northern Ireland Office	8
Trade and Industry4	540
Transport5	62
Total6	19,090
¹ Includes 25 Charity Commission relocations.
² The Crown Prosecution Service had no relocation target at the start of SR04, but later agreed a target of relocating 20 posts out of London and the south-east by 31 March 2008.
³ Includes relocations out of London to Hanslope Park.
4 Includes 171 BIS and three OFT relocations.
5 Includes relocations out of London to Hastings.
6 The total towards the target excludes the additional moves that the FCO and DFT have managed to achieve.

The OGC website provides a further breakdown of the relocations programme:"http://www.ogc.gov.uk/government_relocation_relocation_programme_progress_8176.asp"

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

499 c800-1W; 297682

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Civil servants Location

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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