Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to move civil servant jobs in (a) his Department and (b) non-departmental public bodies and government agencies associated with his Department to York.

There are currently no plans for the department to fill roles in York.

The department’s arm’s length bodies, LocatED and Ofsted, have a presence in York:

• LocatED have 1 full time equivalent based in York, and as part of their headcount forecast for 2025 and 2030 this remains the same.
• Ofsted have approximately 10 employees attached to their York office and are not planning significant growth there.

There are no plans at present for any of our other non-departmental public bodies and government agencies associated with the Department for Education to move jobs to York.