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The Government Property Agency has exchanged contracts to acquire five acres of the former Central Retail Park in Ancoats, from Manchester City Council.

• Updated: 15 May 2024

John Glen sets out steps to improve performance management and attract talent into the Civil Service - ensuring we have the best people in place to deliver for the public.

• Updated: 9 May 2024

New measures to improve performance and ensure the civil service can recruit and retain the best talent were announced this morning by Minister for the Cabinet Office, John Glen at the Reform Think Tank Annual Conference at …

• Updated: 9 May 2024

The Government Property Agency (GPA) has signed Kier as its initial delivery partner to create a new state-of-the-art hub at the Darlington Economic Campus.

• Updated: 30 April 2024

The Government Property Agency brought together Civil Service leaders to exchange ideas, debate trends and inform how the GPA delivers its property services.

• Updated: 24 April 2024

The Government Property Agency (GPA) has appointed Gleeds as a strategic partner to provide professional services for its Capital Programmes.

• Updated: 16 April 2024

The Government Property Agency (GPA) has appointed a quartet of new professional contracts to support delivery of its Workplace Services Projects.

• Updated: 10 April 2024

The Places for Growth programme has successfully relocated 18,283 civil service roles from London to locations across the United Kingdom, putting the government further ahead of schedule against its commitment to relocate 22…

• Updated: 22 March 2024

The Government Property Agency (GPA) has appointed two new strategic partners to provide professional services for its Capital Programmes.

• Updated: 4 March 2024

InFocus brings together news and views from across the Government Property Agency.

• Updated: 1 March 2024

Last month the doors closed at 1 Victoria Street -  a major step in consolidating the Government office estate.

• Updated: 22 February 2024

The GPA's Head of Technology Allan Gardner discusses using occupancy data insights to make human-led decisions when managing government buildings.

• Updated: 16 February 2024

Minister for the Cabinet Office John Glen's speech on the government’s long-term commitment to modernisation and reform in the Civil Service.

• Updated: 23 January 2024

In his keynote address at the Institute for Government’s annual conference, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, John Glen, will outline his long-term priorities to modernise the Civil Service into a more productive institut…

• Updated: 22 January 2024

The Civil Service People Plan 2024-27 sets out a long-term vision of capable leadership, efficiency and reformed recruitment

• Updated: 10 January 2024

Government brings forward target to relocate 22,000 roles out of London from 2030 to 2027. Aberdeen, Darlington and Greater Manchester are to host second headquarters for major departments.

• Updated: 12 December 2023

The Government Property Agency has appointed Mark Bourgeois as interim Chief Executive Officer, taking over from Steven Boyd, who is stepping down this month.

• Updated: 16 November 2023

Our Chief Technology Officer Kean Jones reflects on how we’re working towards smooth and seamless technology for our customers.

• Updated: 13 November 2023

The Civil Service Fast Stream programme has exceeded its ambition to increase the number of hires with a STEM qualification to 50% across all schemes. 

• Updated: 25 October 2023

2,500 ambitious tech talents will be recruited into digital roles in government by June 2025 through new apprenticeship and early talent programmes, the Cabinet Office has announced today.

• Updated: 28 September 2023