Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will review his departmental estate in order to reduce costs; and if he will make a statement.

I am pleased to say that the Department has been making strong progress to date on the delivery of efficiency commitments made at Spending Review 2010 and Spending Round 2013 – which included reviewing the Department’s estate. The move last financial year to 100 Parliament Street and share space with HM Customs and Revenue is delivering savings of around £2m a year savings from 2013/14.

Since 2010-11 expenditure on the departments estate has declined from £8,533,000 to a forecast cost for this financial year (2014-15) of £4,930,000 – a saving since 2010-11 of £3.6m per annum. We continue to look for savings and bear down on all unnecessary expenditure.