Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) has been found within their Department's estate.

Answered by Gareth Davies - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

For now, the focus is on bringing together the information we hold about the Government estate into one place. This work is being coordinated by the Office for Government Property. Survey work is underway.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many workstations were available for civil servants to use in his Department's offices as of 11 October 2022.

Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the figures supplied by his Department for the Cabinet Office’s weekly publication of civil service headquarters occupancy data, what estimate of the daily capacity of the 1 Horse Guards Road office was used to calculate the percentage of employees working in that building since February 2022.

Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

The current capacity estimate for HMT’s occupancy at 1 Horse Guards Road is 996.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total floor area of his departmental estate was in each year from 2010-11 to 2020-21.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The State of the Estate series of reports published by Cabinet Office provides information on HM Treasury’s occupied floor area on an annual basis. The reports from 2010-11 to 2013-14 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/state-of-the-estate. Subsequent reports from 2014-15 to 2020-21 can be found by using links in the following style: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-of-the-estate-2014-to-2015.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data is (a) collected and (b) analysed by his Department on staff working locations, patterns of working in person and remotely, and times at which staff are (i) working, and (ii) physically present in HM Treasury buildings to underpin the adoption, management and assessment of smart working practices in his Department.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The department does not use data collected on staff working locations, patterns of working in person or remotely, or times at which staff are working and physically present in HMT Treasury buildings as the sole indicators analysed to underpin the adoption, management, and assessment of smart working practices.

HMT started work to adopt smarter working practices pre-pandemic and underwent an initial assessment by the Government Property Agency (GPA) in February 2020 in which it was assessed as a ‘new’ adopter of smarter working practices. A further smarter working assessment by the GPA to measure progress is planned to take place in February 2022.

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