HC Deb 02 December 1988 vol 142 c412W
Mr. Thurnham

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement about proposals to relocate offices for Government Departments away from London.

Mr. Brooke

I said in the Adjournment debate on 9 May 1988, at column 130, that I would give the House, at the earliest convenient opportunity, an account of the progress made and planned by Departments under the successor policy to the Government's dispersal programme which I announced on 31 March. Most major Departments already have serious and substantial reviews of locations in hand. I intend to give the House a fuller report in the early months of 1989.