Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there will be any redundancies following the closure of the offices in her Department's estate from which staff will not be relocated to an alternative premise.

The Department’s priority will be to retain, retrain, and redeploy staff either within DWP, or within other Government Departments in the area.

Redundancies will be only considered as a very last resort, and only after all efforts to redeploy within DWP or other Government Departments in the area have been fully exhausted.