Revenue and Customs: East Kilbride

(asked on 21st March 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential (a) financial risk and (b) financial savings of relocating the HMRC offices in East Kilbride as part of the digitisation process.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 28th March 2018

HMRC has a variety of ways to support staff as it moves to regional centres including face to face announcements, a formal one to one process between staff and their managers, regional communications, regional engagement group meetings and regional forums. These are tailored to specific locations and audiences including those in East Kilbride.

HMRC has regular discussions with the trade unions at local and national levels about the relocation to regional centres, including the moves of staff from East Kilbride to Glasgow, and it will continue to engage with them as it implements its plans. Both unions are invited to local Regional Engagement Group meetings.

HMRC is retaining Queensway House, East Kilbride, as a transitional site until 2025-26. It will work with all affected groups, such as staff, unions, local councils and stakeholders across the west of Scotland to implement its strategy in the lead up to the withdrawal from East Kilbride.

HMRC’s Programme Business Case for the ten-year period to 2025-26 has been reviewed by the Major Projects Review Group and was approved by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in July 2017. HMRC’s location strategy will result in savings of more than £300 million up to 2025. The Programme will also deliver annual cash savings (compared to 2015-16 costs) of £74 million in 2025-26, rising to around £90 million by 2028.

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