Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2019 to Question 910478, what the twelve new public bodies are that will be located outside London.

The Government committed in the 2018 Government Estates Strategy to locate more Civil Service roles out of London and into the regions and nations of the United Kingdom. To deliver on this commitment, the Cabinet Office is co-ordinating activity under the Places for Growth programme. This programme will take a place-based approach to relocating roles that ensures we have the skills and capacity in the right places to enable organisations and cities to flourish.

Since 2016, the creation of the following agencies and public bodies has been approved on condition that they will be based outside of London, either immediately or over an agreed timeframe. These are:

• Regulator of Social Housing - Manchester and Leeds
• Government Property Agency - Birmingham
• 2022 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee - Birmingham
• Small Business Commissioner - Birmingham
• Submarine Delivery Authority - Bristol
• Institute for Apprenticeships - Coventry
• Healthcare Safety Information Branch - Farnborough
• Social Work England - Sheffield
• Independent Commission on Civil Aviation Noise - Guildford
• UK Trade Remedies Authority - Reading
• The Single Finance Guidance Body will be required to relocate within five years after its creation.
• The East West Rail Company will be based in London while the company is being formed and once operational will base itself in a location along the railway route.