Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times the Government Property Unit met with the head of estates in each Department in the last 12 months.

The Government Property Unit meets with departmental heads of estates on a formal basis regularly and additionally there are many routine contacts on operational business. The Government Property Unit runs a governance board attended by departmental Property Leaders every two months. They further meet individual Departments for bilateral meetings at regularly agreed intervals throughout the year, the frequency being dependent on the size and significance of an individual Department's property portfolio.