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HM Treasury occupies a small estate the core of which is the building at 1 Horse Guards Road. Space rationalisation since May 2010 in this building has allowed the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office, the Office of Parliamentary Counsel and UK Export Finance to be accommodated, generating £12m pa in rental income. In line with business planning HM Treasury regularly reviews its accommodation needs.<\/p>"}
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Since 2010, the Department has had considerable success in reducing the cost of its wider estate through the rationalisation of retained office space and targeted building disposals. This has seen the Department surrender six leasehold office properties through a combination of lease breaks and expiries, generating net savings in the period of around £7 million per annum. The Department has also successfully sub-let surplus space across its leasehold office estate during the same period, reducing the overall property costs by around £6.5 million per annum.<\/p>
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Building on this success, in 2013-14, we have secured further savings of £4.6 million by subletting further space in Eland House in London ahead of vacating the building in September 2014. The move from Eland House to 2 Marsham Street will reduce my department\u2019s running costs by £9 million a year from 2015-16. Overall, these changes will save taxpayers a total of £220 million over the lifetime of the building\u2019s lease commitments.<\/p>
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This illustrates the scope for local government and, indeed, the public sector as a whole to make sensible savings through better property management.<\/p>
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In June 2013, supporting the Prime Minister\u2019s commitment to support the development of small and medium enterprises, the Department agreed terms with business incubator providers to take vacant space at 2 Rivergate House in Bristol and Bridge House, Guildford. This is an important part of the Government\u2019s drive to assist the start-up and small and medium enterprises business and we are also working with the Government Property Unit on potential Government Space for Growth opportunities in other properties held by DCLG.<\/p>
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The Department continues to make good progress on rationalising the Defence estate. In financial year 2013-14 the Ministry of Defence (MOD) generated £123 million of receipts from sales of estate that was surplus to Defence requirements.
The MOD's target is to generate gross receipts of £1.9 billion through the disposal of property assets by financial year 2022-23.<\/p>"}
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Since May 2010, the Department for Education has reduced the size of its estate from 30 properties, at a cost of circa £51 million per annum, to six properties costing circa £31 million per annum. This is a saving of £20 million per annum.<\/p>
In 2012, the Department announced an ambitious programme to reduce its estate from 12 sites to six, while maximising the efficiency of the buildings retained. This has now been achieved by reducing the amount of space we use, by surrendering unwanted facilities to landlords and through sub-letting vacant space to other organisations.<\/p>
We also plan to vacate Sanctuary Buildings at lease expiry in 2017 and relocate to a Government owned freehold building, which will generate a further saving of circa £8.5 million per annum.<\/p>
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The Department of Energy and Climate Change currently occupies four buildings in London and one in Aberdeen. DECC\u2019s current occupation is in line with the Cabinet Office directives of fewer desks than staff (Full Time Equivalent \u2013 FTE) and within 8-10m2<\/sup> per FTE (by December 2015).<\/p>The lease in Aberdeen is due to expire in May 2016 and alternative accommodation will be sought with value for money as one of the key objectives.<\/p>
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By September 2014 following relocation of the Department for Communities and Local Government to 2 Marsham Street, the size of the non-operational administrative estate occupied by the Department will have reduced by 22% to 315,000 sq m since May 2010. Annual savings will be in excess of £50 million.<\/p>
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