Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2021 to Question 27140 on Treasury: Buildings and with reference to the staffing of the Darlington Economic Campus, what estimate he has made of the number of existing roles that will be moved to Darlington from each of the (a) Department for International Trade, (b) Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (c) Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and (d) Office for National Statistics; from which existing office locations those jobs will be moved; what estimate he has made of the number of new jobs that will be created in Darlington in each of the (a) Department for International Trade, (b) Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (c) Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and (d) Office for National Statistics; what the timescale is for those departments moving work to the Darlington Economic Campus; and if he will make a statement.

The Darlington economic campus is an important part of the government’s wider Places for Growth programme, which aims to move 22,000 Civil Servants out of London by 2030. There will be at least 750 roles relocated to Darlington from across HM Treasury, the Department for International Trade, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and the Office for National Statistics. The roles across the campus will be filled through both voluntary relocations of existing staff and direct recruitment. The economic campus will have a phased opening and all departments are working at pace to establish the campus as quickly as possible. The estimated number of roles to be based in Darlington by Department and timescales for moves will be announced by those Departments in due course.