Public Sector Relocation

Overview

Recent Developments

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Locate in Birmingham is leading Birmingham City Council's response to the Lyons Review and is working with a range of government bodies who are either considering a relocation to Birmingham or in the process of relocating to the city.

Birmingham has been already been chosen by the Gambling Commission and the Big Lottery Fund as a result of the Lyons Review on Public Sector relocation.

The Public Sector in Birmingham

Birmingham has a wide range of public sector employers including regional and national headquarters. The concentration of public sector bodies in the city combined with the wider business and professional services sector offers relocating organisations, a large pool of skilled labour and further career opportunities.

Public Sector organisations in Birmingham include:

• Advantage West Midlands (Regional Development Agency)
• Big Lottery Fund
• Birmingham City Council
• Birmingham and Solihull Learning and Skills Council
• Criminal Cases Review Commission
• Defence Estates
• Gambling Commission
• Government Office for the West Midlands
• Highways Agency
• OFWAT
• Royal Centre for Defence Medicine
  

The Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister asked Sir Michael Lyons, Director of the Institute of Local Government Studies at the University of Birmingham, to conduct an independent study into the scope for relocating a substantial number of public sector activities from London and the South East of England to other parts of the United Kingdom. Sir Michael has completed his review and on 15 March 2004 published his report, ‘Well Placed to Deliver? – Shaping the Pattern of Government Service’.

Sir Michael confirms that government departments have identified some 20,000 jobs that could move out of London and the South East and recommends that they should urgently take forward their relocation plans in the 2004 Spending Review.  A further 7,000 posts would no longer be required as a result of efficiencies.  Potentially, over £2 billion could be saved over 15 years as a result.

To view the official documents, produced by HM Treasury, click here.

Images courtesy of Anna Gibson (1 & 2) and Marketing Birmingham (3)

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