§ Mr. WelshTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list(a) the offices (i) owned and (ii) rented by his Department and its agencies in Scotland and (b) the number of staff (y) employed and (z) that can be accommodated (1) in total and (2) at each site. [114235]
§ Angela EagleThis Department no longer owns nor rents any offices. Since the PRIME contract began in April 1998, the Department has purchased serviced office accommodation from our private sector partners, Trillium plc.
A list of the buildings in Scotland where Trillium provides serviced office accommodation to the Department, as the major occupier, is given in the table.
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Property Occupier Number of staff Square metres/head Total Business Square Metres (BSM) Benefits Agency Cumbernauld Fleming House AD 12 109 20.40 2,224 Dumfries Irish Street AD 12 107 12.70 1,359 Campbeltown Hall Street AD 12 19 21.76 413 Glasgow Minerva Street AD 12 0 0.00 910 Largs Brisbane Road AD 12 5 19.84 99 Ayr Wallacetoun House AD 12 209 12.48 2,608 Stranraer Ashwood Drive AD 12 43 15.82 680 Stornaway Castle Street AD 12 40 16.90 676 Wick Girnigoe Street AD 12 51 14.97 763 48 Princes Street, Ardrossan AD 12 0 0.00 75 Glasgow Benalder Street AD 12 81 16.72 1,354 Fort William Tweeddale AD 12 29 17.59 510 Glasgow Shettleston Road AD 12 160 14.61 2,337 Glasgow Coustonholm Road AD 12 216 14.91 3,220 Kirkintilloch Townhead AD 12 2 38.40 77 Paisley Lonend AD 12 256 11.81 3,023 Traill House Olrig Street, Thurso AD 12 1 105 105 Girvan Montgomerie Street AD 12 0 0.00 72 Glasgow Nitshill Road AD 12 0 0.00 476 Johnstone William Street AD 12 5 33.50 168 Cumnock Glaisnock Street AD 12 7 22.57 158 Glasgow West Regent House AD 12 222 12.57 2,790 Dingwall Castle Street AD 12 0 0.00 73 Elgin Trinity Road AD 12 60 20.41 1,225 Glasgow Herschell Street AD 12 153 15.21 2,327 Glasgow Stepps Road AD 12 98 26.06 2,554 Greenock Dalrymple Street AD 12 187 13.93 2,606 Kilmarnock Woodstock Street AD 12 102 17.88 1,823 Glasgow Paisley Road West (1479) AD 12 122 6.97 850 Oban Mathieson House AD 12 21 33.34 700 East Kilbride Murray House AD 12 123 13.78 1,695 Glasgow Muslin Street AD 12 130 17.40 2,262 Glasgow Mitchell Arcade AD 12 16 22.22 355 Irvine Bank Street AD 12 188 11.27 2,120 Clydebank Radnor House AD 12 176 13.90 2,446 Inverness Church Street AD 12 157 12.48 1,960 Glasgow Laurieston House AD 12 227 16.49 3,744 Benbecula Druim Na H'Airde AD 12 1 43.00 43 Glasgow Atlas Road AD 12 199 16.68 3,319 Port Glasgow Scarlow Street AD 12 30 53.77 1,613 Glasgow Maryhill Road AD 12 103 21.67 2,232 Alexandria Mitchell Way AD 12 2 53.65 107 Alloa Bank Street AD 13 2 36.73 73 Coatbridge South Circular Road AD 13 12 160.51 1,926 Airdrie Graham Street AD 13 12 43.63 524 The table gives details of the total number of staff employed and a breakdown, by business unit, of the number of staff at each site.
Information about the numbers of staff that could feasibly be accommodated within the space currently occupied is not held centrally but details of the total business square metres available to each business unit is provided in the table. An average square metre allocation per member of staff is also given. This is a "notional" figure, however, and takes no account of the purpose for which the accommodation is maintained nor of less populated areas such as public caller areas and reception areas.
Trillium are contractually obliged to help business units to plan the effective and efficient management of their own accommodation and are actively working with the Department to achieve a greater degree of sophistication in our space utilisation plans. The ultimate aim is to maximise the benefit of the accommodation for all users, while maintaining an effective service to the customer.
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Property Occupier Number of staff Square metres/head Total Business Square Metres (BSM) Aberdeen Greyfriars House AD 13 222 15.24 3,384 Bathgate Whitburn Road AD 13 252 11.25 2,834 Wishaw Alexander Street AD 13 0 0.00 695 Shotts Dyfrig Street AD 13 2 169.00 338 Peterhead Government Buildings AD 13 54 19.96 1,078 Falkirk Heron House AD 13 0 0.00 2,185 Leven Walton House AD 13 52 28.85 1,500 Falkirk Heron House (PAU) AD 13 119 1.34 159 Edinburgh Murrayburn House AD 13 8 59.38 475 Hamilton Douglas Street AD 13 140 13.64 1,909 Blairgowrie Leslie Street AD 13 0 0.00 71 Edinburgh Argyle House AD 13 206 51.53 10,615 Cowdenbeath Factory Road AD 13 58 16.54 959 Units 9 and 10 Block 4 Blantyre Industrial Estate, DIRC AD 13 17 55.24 939 Motherwell Fleminton House AD 13 137 19.78 2,709 Glenrothes North House AD 13 5 30.40 152 Bellshill Bowling Green St. (New Bldg.) AD 13 10 155.50 1,555 Montrose Murray Street AD 13 0 0.00 91 Dalkeith Eskdaill Street AD 13 12 10.99 132 Coatbridge Unit 2 AD 13 103 4.86 501 Larkhall Union Street AD 13 3 39.33 118 Wishaw Main Street AD 13 4 81.50 326 Dunfermline Merchiston House AD 13 72 17.10 1,231 Kirkcaldy Victoria Road AD 13 120 22.61 2,713 Perth Mill Street AD 13 83 20.49 1,700 Edinburgh Haymarket House AD 13 11 32.28 355 Galashiels Market Street AD 13 79 14.06 1,111 Stirling St. Ninian's Road AD 13 126 16.68 2,102 Forfar Castle Street AD 13 0 0.00 73 Dundee Magdalene Yard Road AD 13 0 0.00 293 Arbroath Grant Road AD 13 73 18.69 1,364 Edinburgh High Street—Portobello AD 13 124 15.87 1,967 Lerwick Charlotte House AD 13 18 28.78 518 Dundee Lindsay House AD 13 238 13.52 3,219 Edinburgh Leith Lyndean House AD 13 106 23.78 2,521 St. Andrews South Street AD 13 0 0.00 88 Glasgow Northgate AD 2 767 11.63 8,924 Glasgow Pentagon Centre AD 2 36 47.75 1,719 Glasgow Corunna House (29) DCBD 175 16.67 2,917 Glasgow Corunna House (39) DCBD 63 41.03 2,585 Child Support Agency Aberdeen Greyfiars House CSA 5 20.05 100 Bathgate Whitburn Road CSA 0 0.00 91 Campbeltown Hall Street CSA 1 26.18 26 Clydebank Radnor House CSA 3 14.25 43 Cowdenbeath Factory Road CSA 6 13.17 79 Cumbernauld Fleming House CSA 1 43.07 43 Dumfries Irish Street CSA 2 49.56 99 Dundee Lindsay House CSA 9 17.05 153 Edinburgh Argyle House CSA 37 13.78 510 Edinburgh High Street—Portobello CSA 0 0.00 12 Elgin Trinity Road CSA 2 20.12 40 Falkirk Antonine House CSA 141 21.29 3,001 Falkirk Callendar Park CSA 798 9.46 7,552 Falkirk Heron House CSA 8 11.53 92 Galashiels Market Street CSA 1 28.39 28 Glasgow Muslin Street CSA 5 11.12 56 Glasgow Paisley Road West (1479) CSA 61 12.08 737 Glasgow West Regent House CSA 12 9.04 109 Greenock Dalrymple Street CSA 10 24.81 248 Hamilton Douglas Street CSA 11 18.34 202 Inverness Church Street CSA 11 5.27 58 Irvine Bank Street CSA 14 17.76 249 Oban Mathieson House CSA 1 11.87 12 Paisley Lonend CSA 4 23.37 93 Perth Mill Street CSA 11 16.22 178 Peterhead Government Buildings CSA 3 31.23 94 Stirling St. Ninian's Road CSA 10 8.96 90 Stranraer Ashwood Drive CSA 1 14.32 14 Wick Girnigoe Street CSA 5 21.03 105
Property Occupier Number of staff Square metres/head Total Business Square Metres (BSM) War Pensions Agency Aberdeen Greyfriars House WPA 2 21.55 43.09 Dundee Lindsay House WPA 0 0.00 26.11 Edinburgh Argyle House WPA 7 20.46 143.23 Glasgow West Regent House WPA 9 17.51 157.55 Information Technology Services Agency Buchanan House Livingstone EDS1 10 0.00 15,080 Livingstone Firth Road Store EDS1 10 0.00 1,923 Headquarters Edinburgh Argyle House HQ 34 16.12 548 Appeals Service Wellington House Glasgow AS 141 14.62 2,060.74 Total 8,543 — 171,823 AD 12—West of Scotland Area Directorate
AD 13—East of Scotland Area Directorate
AD 2—Chilterns Area Directorate
DCBD—Disability and Carers Benefits Directorate
Note:
No DSS staff—occupied by service provider, EDS staff