A decision on the final location of the GBR HQ will be taken shortly, based on information gathered throughout the process.

The Secretary of State is in regular contact with Ministers across government on a variety of issues.

The Government has committed to ensuring that the administration of Government is less Whitehall-centric with 22,000 civil service roles relocating to the regions and nations of the UK by the end of the decade. As you are aware, HMT and MHCLG both announced their relocation plans in the last few weeks. The Places for Growth programme is working with departments on their relocation plans to ensure a broad geography of the UK is benefiting from this agenda. Further announcements will be made in due course.

Across the Department for Transport Group (the core Department and its four Executive Agencies) 79% of staff are based outside of London.

The core Department has 427 staff (of a total workforce of 3,457) outside of London in the following locations:

• Aldershot
• Birmingham
• Bristol
• Cambridge
• Derby
• Guildford
• Hastings
• Leeds
• Liverpool
• Newcastle Upon Tyne
• Nottingham
• Southampton
• Swansea
• Woking

The Department’s Executive Agencies have 12,064 staff (of a total workforce of 12,433) outside London.

DVSA has over 100 locations outside of London with its largest bases in Bristol, Swansea, Nottingham, Tyneside, Leeds, Birmingham and Staffordshire.

VCA is predominantly based in Bristol and Nuneaton.

MCA has 38 locations outside of London with its largest bases in Southampton and Portsmouth.

DVLA is predominantly (over 6,000 staff) based in Swansea.

The core Department is exploring options for expanding its presence in the regions and nations of the UK as part of the Government’s commitment to move 22,000 civil service roles out of London by 2030. We will announce our plans once finalised.

The Government has committed to ensuring that the administration of Government is less Whitehall-centric with 22,000 civil service roles relocating to the regions and nations of the UK by the end of the decade. As you are aware, HMT and MHCLG both announced their relocation plans in the last few weeks. The Places for Growth programme is working with departments on their relocation plans to ensure a broad geography of the UK is benefiting from this agenda. Further announcements will be made in due course.

I refer the hon. Member to the answers given by myself and the Minister without Portfolio to questions on 12 November.

I refer the hon. Member to the answers given by myself and the Minister without Portfolio to questions on 12 November.

The Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May. The new legislation updates our data protection framework, and includes stronger rights for data subjects in relation to the processing of their personal data. The GDPR gives individuals the right to request that a data controller erases personal data concerning them without undue delay where the individual has withdrawn their consent. The GDPR also gives people the right to have inaccurate personal data relating to them rectified by a data controller without undue delay. Guidance on how to request erasure and rectification has been produced by the Information Commissioner's Office and published on their website at ico.org.uk.

I admire the hon. Gentleman’s modesty, because he merely asked for a place on the shortlist, as opposed to winning the decision. Of course, there will also be creative hubs for those cities to which Channel 4 does not move. I am sure that this afternoon’s Westminster Hall debate on this topic will be well subscribed so that this debate can continue further.

I refer the Hon Member to the reply to question 131842 answered on 14th March.

The Government welcomes Channel 4's agreement to move 300 staff out of London, rising over time. There are many creative locations across the UK, and Channel 4 will launch a process in April in which cities and regions across the UK can pitch to become the home of Channel 4's new National HQ and creative hubs, with the aim that a decision on these locations will be taken in Q3 2018.

For security reasons we do not publish a breakdown of the counter-terrorism policing budget by region or capability.

Overall crime and proven offending by young people has fallen in recent years. Fewer young people have entered the criminal justice system and as a result fewer young people have ended up in custody. To deliver the best value for taxpayers we have reduced the number of youth custody places.

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is responsible for the placement of young people in custody. Young people are placed in establishments that can most effectively manage their individual needs. While every effort is made to place young people as close to home as possible, other factors are taken into account in placement decisions, such as age, suitability of regime, risk of self-harm and the risk of harm to other.

The YJB holds data on the distance from home of young people accommodated in Secure Training Centres and Young Offender Institutions. “Home” is defined as a young person's address at the time of placement. If no address is recorded, the address of the Youth Offending Team overseeing the young person is used as a proxy.

Table A: Average distance from home (in miles) for young people in Secure Training Centres and in Under 18 Young Offender Institutions from May 2010

Data from April 2012 has been taken from eAsset, the booking system used by the Youth Justice Board for England & Wales to place young people in to custody. Data prior to April 2012 comes from the Youth Justice Board’s Secure Accommodation Clearing House System, the booking system used prior to eAsset.

This data is based on 12 monthly snapshots of the custodial population, taken on the last Friday of the month or first Friday of the following month, depending on which is nearer to the actual month end.

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and can be subject to change over time.

Data from April 2013 is provisional. The figures for the 2013/14 financial year will be finalised in the 2013/14 Youth Justice Statistics on 29th January 2015 and the figures for the 2014/15 financial year will be finalised in the 2014/15 Youth Justice Statistics which are anticipated for publication in January 2016.

Overall crime and proven offending by young people has fallen in recent years. Fewer young people have entered the criminal justice system and as a result fewer young people have ended up in custody. To deliver the best value for taxpayers we have reduced the number of youth custody places.

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is responsible for the placement of young people in custody. Young people are placed in establishments that can most effectively manage their individual needs. While every effort is made to place young people as close to home as possible, other factors are taken into account in placement decisions, such as age, suitability of regime, risk of self-harm and the risk of harm to other.

The YJB holds data on the distance from home of young people accommodated in Secure Training Centres and Young Offender Institutions. “Home” is defined as a young person's address at the time of placement. If no address is recorded, the address of the Youth Offending Team overseeing the young person is used as a proxy.

Table A: Average distance from home (in miles) for young people in Secure Training Centres and in Under 18 Young Offender Institutions from May 2010

Data from April 2012 has been taken from eAsset, the booking system used by the Youth Justice Board for England & Wales to place young people in to custody. Data prior to April 2012 comes from the Youth Justice Board’s Secure Accommodation Clearing House System, the booking system used prior to eAsset.

This data is based on 12 monthly snapshots of the custodial population, taken on the last Friday of the month or first Friday of the following month, depending on which is nearer to the actual month end.

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and can be subject to change over time.

Data from April 2013 is provisional. The figures for the 2013/14 financial year will be finalised in the 2013/14 Youth Justice Statistics on 29th January 2015 and the figures for the 2014/15 financial year will be finalised in the 2014/15 Youth Justice Statistics which are anticipated for publication in January 2016.

Overall crime and proven offending by young people has fallen in recent years. Fewer young people have entered the criminal justice system and as a result fewer people have ended up in custody. To deliver the best value for money for taxpayers we have reduced the number of youth justice places.

Young people are placed in establishments that can most effectively manage their individual needs. Factors such as age, suitability of regime, risk of self-harm or to others, all have to be taken into account.

Disclosure of specific information about individual offenders may lead to the identification of those offenders and a potential breach of the Data Protection Act. . The table below therefore sets out, in banded categories, the distances from home for young people placed in secure establishments following their transferral from Hassockfield Secure Training Centre;

Table A: Table showing the banded distance from home (in miles) of the young people after the decommissioning of Hassockfield Secure Training Centre.

“Home” is defined as a young person's address at the time of placement.

This data is operational and uses a calculation of distance travelled by road rather than distance as the crow flies.

This information comes from the eAsset database, the booking system used by the YJB to place young people into custody.

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and can be subject to change over time.

All 457 full-time equivalent staff of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport are based in London.