Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list all the risk assessments conducted by officials of his Department relating to the Modernisation of Office Environment project; and whether trade union health and safety representatives were consulted for each of those risk assessments.

The Department has engaged Mace and their subcontractors to carry out Project Management and Full Design services in relation to the Modernising our Working Environment (MoWE) programme. Shore Engineering, who are a Corporate Approved Inspector authorised by the Government to carry out the building control and Principle Designer functions for building work anywhere in England and Wales, were appointed as a subcontractor to provide and collate specific information on risks or other such hazards identified during the Pre-Construction and Design stages of the project. Further Gensler (who are the Lead Designer and Architects) maintain design risk management registers. This information on risks will be completed by the end of RIBA stage 4 to be included in the Pre-Construction Information to the shortlisted tenderers. Once complete these registers will be shared with departmental trades unions.

In addition, a risk assessment on Security Threat been carried out by Mace or their subcontractors on behalf of the Department. This has not been shared with trades unions.