Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, in how many office buildings the Government operates.

As of 31st March 2018; there were approximately 1,700 building records recorded with an office use. These include Call Centres, Front of House, HQ Offices, IT/Data Centres and Service Supporting Office. The Government Property Structure attached explains what central government civil estate is.

Please note the following about this information:

• All information on e-PIMS is maintained by the central departments who ensure the data is accurate.

• Properties listed are in the UK (incl NI) only.

• Where government has leased space in a building from the superior landlord, this may be for part of, and not the entire building.

• Where multiple departments have a legal interest in a single physical building, ie. each has separately leased space in the building from the superior landlord, then each department will have an individual building record, therefore in some instances the building count will be greater than the actual physical building count.

• This information provided is on all assets listed as Offices. The figure reported in the government estate strategy refers only to offices within the scope of the programmes led by GPA to reduce the '800 to 200' offices.