Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 7 April 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many civil servants in his Department have (a) been relocated and (b) been agreed for relocation in the last 12 months; and to which areas of the United Kingdom.
As announced in Spending Review 2004 as part of the Independent Review of Public Sector Relocation, the Department put forward proposals to relocate some 4,000 posts from London and the South East.
By March 2005 the Department had relocated 2,344 posts from London and the South East. Posts have relocated to East Midlands, North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber regions, and to Scotland and Wales. Plans are in place to relocate the remaining posts by 2008.
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