Simon Kirby – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Simon Kirby on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will bring forward proposals to relocate (a) staff and (b) offices of his Department to Brighton; and if he will make a statement.

Elizabeth Truss

The Department for Education does not plan to relocate its staff or offices to Brighton.

Following the Department’s Estates Review in 2012, it was announced that the Department would rationalise the existing estate from 12 core sites to 6, while maximising the efficiency of the retained sites. This has now been accomplished and the 6 remaining properties are located in Coventry, Darlington, London, Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield.