Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many new jobs in the north of England his Department estimates will to be created by 2020 as part of the One Public Estate programme.

The One Public Estate programme collects data pertaining to new jobs created by local-authority-led One Public Estate partnerships. This includes forecasted data derived at the local level and delivered actuals, based on evidence. This data is collected quarterly from partnerships as part of the programme’s monitoring and reporting requirements.

We have understood your request to cover the official regions of the North West, North East, and Yorkshire and the Humber. Forecasts indicate that One Public Estate projects will facilitate the creation of 28,635 new jobs by 2020 in these areas. Over 4,900 of these jobs have already been created.