Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve Departmental compliance with Open Government Partnership data requirements on property condition reporting.

There are no specific data requirements under the UK’s membership of the international Open Government Partnership (OGP) relating to property condition reporting.

The Government Property Data Standard (GPDS), specified by the government’s functional lead for property, the Office of Government Property (OGP), within the Cabinet Office, does include a defined building condition metric. The Government Property Data Standard is mandated for use across all central government departments. The standard currently includes requirements for reporting on building condition metrics using a four-tier rating system.

Departments are expected to report against this standard as part of business-as-usual property data returns. Plans are underway to improve the quality of this data and work towards making condition data publicly available in due course.