Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2018 to Question 128318, on the One Public Estate Programme, how many of those submitted applications included partnerships with government departments.

Further to the response provided for Question 128318, all 76 One Public Estate partnerships have at least one government department or agency on their local partnership boards.

At its core, One Public Estate is about local and central government working together with other public bodies to transform communities and local public services and deliver value for money for the taxpayer. To effectively deliver these objectives, government departments and/or their local agencies must be included in One Public Estate partnerships.