Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he intends to maintain his Department's headquarters at Caxton House as part of the renegotiation of his Department's estate contract with Telereal Trillium.

The department is in the process of reviewing all of its estates requirements as the current contract for most of the estate comes to an end on 31 March 2018.

No decision has been made on the future of Caxton House by the department. It is important to remember that the Department has non-operational teams based in many different locations nationwide, with some large teams based in particular offices, including Caxton House.

Commercial negotiations are underway on the entirety of our estate at this time and it is not appropriate to comment further on individual sites while negotiations are in progress.