HC Deb 19 November 1991 vol 199 c141W
Mr. Speller

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to decentralise civil service offices to the south-west of England.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

[holding answer 11 November 1991]: Since 1988, Departments have decided to relocate or locate around 5,000 civil service posts to the south-west region. These include around 3,000 Ministry of Defence procurement executive's land, air and sea systems controllerates posts which will move to Bristol and Bath in 1994–95, and 500 Department of Social Security Child Support Agency posts due to move to Plymouth in 1993.