Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2020 to Question 1398 on Revenue and Customs: Staff, what progress he has made on assessing deployment opportunities for staff of the HMRC Bathgate Pyramids Business Centre; and how many of those staff he now expects to redeploy to the Edinburgh Regional Centre.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are continuing to work through and pursue redeployment options for a number of colleagues within HMRC and in other Government departments. HMRC anticipate that this will be completed by the end of March. Current indications are that more than 70% of staff in Bathgate will be redeployed in Edinburgh, or to an alternative office or to another Government Department.