Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any refurbishments have been made to ministerial offices in her Department in each of the last two years.

The department is undertaking a maintenance project in its London office. The works were initiated in 2019, as part of much wider government programme to reduce the number of civil servants based in London and to shrink the physical footprint of office accommodation in Whitehall and reduce the burden on the taxpayer. This is primarily essential work to replace the end of life mechanical and electrical systems, bring the building up to a suitable standard, and enable the department to consolidate its occupation. This will enable the building to become a Government Property Agency hub and provide vacant space to be used by other governmental departments.

As part of the consolidation, Ministers will be required to move to another floor. The work to enable this move is underway and due to complete in spring 2024.