HC Deb 09 November 1989 vol 159 c734W
Mr. Thurnham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has any plans to relocate his Department's offices to the north-east of England; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

Not at present. My Department is proposing to relocate a further 50 posts from London to its Darlington office during 1990. In addition, a senior official of the Department is about to undertake a study of the long-term location requirements of the Department in the light of the Government's policy on relocation. The study will consider various possibilities, including the handling of some functions regionally.