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Regional Agencies (Eastern Region)
Andrew Selous:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will list the locations of the offices of regional bodies and agencies in the Eastern region; by county, for which his Department is responsible. [95058]
Mr. Nicholas Brown:
The answer is in the tables.
| Offices in East of England Government Office Region
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|---|
| Bedfordshire
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| Bedfordshire District Manager Location and District Office, Dunstable | Dunstable Jobcentre
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| Bedford Social Security Office | Leighton Buzzard Jobcentre
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| Bedford Jobcentre | Luton Social Security Office
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| Biggleswade Jobcentre | Luton Jobcentre
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| Cambridgeshire
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| Cambridge Social Security Office | Peterborough Social Security Office
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| Cambridge Jobcentre | Peterborough Jobcentre
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| Ely Jobcentre | St Neots Jobcentre
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| Huntingdon Jobcentre | Wisbech Jobcentre
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| March Jobcentre |
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| Essex
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| Essex District Manager Location and District Office, Chelmsford | Grays Jobcentre
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| Basildon Social Security Office | Harlow Social Security Office
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| Basildon Jobcentre | Harlow Jobcentre
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| Braintree Social Security Office | Harwich Jobcentre
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| Brentwood Jobcentre | Loughton Jobcentre
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| Canvey Island Jobcentre | Maldon Jobcentre Plus
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| Chelmsford Jobcentre Plus | Rayleigh Jobcentre Plus
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| Clacton Social Security Office | Southend Social Security Office
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| Clacton Jobcentre | Southend Jobcentre Plus
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| Colchester Social Security Office | Stansted Airport Jobcentre
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| Colchester High Street Jobcentre | Tilbury Jobcentre
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| Colchester Southway House Jobcentre | Witham Jobcentre
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| Grays Social Security Office |
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| Hertfordshire
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| Bishop Stortford Jobcentre | St Albans Jobcentre
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| Borehamwood Jobcentre | St Albans Social Security Office
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| Hatfield Jobcentre | Stevenage Social Security Office
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| Herriel Hempstead Social Security Office | Stevenage Jobcentre
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| Hemel Hempstead Jobcentre | Waltham Cross Jobcentre
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| Hertford Jobcentre | Watford Social Security Office
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| Hitchin Jobcentre | Watford Jobcentre
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| Letchworh Jobcentre | Welwyn Garden City Jobcentre
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| Norfolk
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| Cromer Jobcentre | Kings Lynn Jobcentre
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| Dereham Jobcentre | North Walsham Jobcentre
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| Diss Social Security Office | Norwich Chantry Social Security Office
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| Diss Jobcentre | Norwich Kiln House Jobcentre
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| Downham Market Jobcentre | Norwich Mountergate Social Security Office/Pensions Centre
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| Fakenham Jobcentre | Norwich Theatre Street Jobcentre
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| Great Yarmouth Social Security Office | Swaffham Jobcentre
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| Great Yarmouth Jobcentre | Thetford
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| Hunstanton Jobcentre | Wymondham Jobcentre
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| Kings Lynn Social Security Office |
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| Suffolk
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| Suffolk District Manager Location & District Office, Ipswich | Leiston Jobcentre
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| Beccles Jobcentre | Lowestoft Social Security Office
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| Bury St Edmunds Social Security Office | Lowestoft Jobcentre
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| Bury St Edmunds Jobcentre | Mildenhall Jobcentre
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| Felixstowe Jobcentre | Newmarket Jobcentre
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| Haverhill Jobcentre | Stowmarket Jobcentre
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| Ipswich Social Security Office | Sudbury Jobcentre
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| Ipswich Jobcentre | Woodbridge Jobcentre
|
|
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| Offices outside the East of England Government Office region that serve the people within it
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| Wembley Disability Benefits Centre | Notts Local Service Branch (CSA)
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| Disability Benefits Unit, Blackpool | North West Yorkshire Local Service Branch (CSA)
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| Invalid Care Allowance Unit, Preston | South East Yorkshire Local Service Branch (CSA)
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| Barnsley Satellite Processing Centre (CSA) | Western Local Service Branch (CSA)
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| Nottingham Satellite Processing Centre (CSA) | Hull Caller Centre (CSA)
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| Norwich Satellite Processing Centre (CSA) | Pensions Direct, National Pension Centre, Tyne View Park, Newcastle.
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| Sheffield Satellite Processing Centre (CSA) | Child Benefit Centre, Washington (45)
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| Central Local Service Branch (CSA) |
|
|
|
Notes:
(45) Responsibility for Child Benefit will transfer to the Inland Revenue in April 2003, when Child Benefit Centre will become the Child Benefit Office of then Revenue.
The following offices based outside Bedfordshire serve the population of Bedfordshire, Norwich Mountergate Social Pensions Centre; Wembley Disability Benefits Centre; Disability Benefits Unit, Blackpool; Invalid Care Allowance Unit; Preston, Hull Caller Centre, Tyne View Park, Newcastle; Child Benefit Centre, Washington and Western Local Services Branch (CSA)
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Shoulder Impingement Syndrome
Annabelle Ewing:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has to recognise impingement syndrome of the shoulder as a prescribed disease for the purpose of industrial injuries disablement benefit. [98598]
Mr. Nicholas Brown:
Representations concerning impingement syndrome of the shoulder were brought to the attention of the research working group of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) at its meeting on 13 February 2003. Work related upper limb disorders are part of IIAC's programme of work for 2003–04 and the Council will consider the scientific evidence on Impingement Syndrome in its review.
Information is not collected centrally on the number of people affected by Impingement Syndrome of the shoulder. We have received no representations from the Department of Health on this issue.
Transco
Mr. Gardiner:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when the Health and Safety Executive's review of Transco's data handling will be completed; and whether the findings will be published. [94638]
Mr. Nicholas Brown:
HSE received a final copy of Transco's consultants' report reviewing Transco's data handling arrangements on Tuesday 4 February. HSE is now awaiting Transco's formal action plan in response to the report and will consider both documents to determine whether any further action is necessary.
It is HSE's intention that the health and safety findings of the report will be made public.
Trillium Group
Mr. Laws:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many buildings were sold to the Trillium Group Ltd. under the Private Sector Resource Initiative for Management of the Estate; what the market value was of these buildings at the time of the sale; if he will list the buildings involved; and if he will make a statement. [98389]
Malcolm Wicks:
On 1 April 1998 the then Department of Social Security transferred almost all of its estate through the Private Sector Resource Initiative for Management of the Estate (PRIME) to the private sector consortium now called LandSecurities Trillium. At that time the Department occupied approximately 700 buildings. Of these, only the 212 freehold and long lease buildings had a capital value and these are listed in the table. As part of the PRIME contract the Department received a cash consideration of £250 million for assets transferred. At the time of the transfer the Departments' property advisers estimated the value of the Estate to be over £300 million. The excess value of the estate is being recovered through reduced facilities payments.
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The National Audit Office report entitled "The PRIME project: The transfer of The Department of Social Security Estate to the private sector" was published in April 1999. The report was positive and concluded that PRIME is likely to provide better Value for Money than continuing with the existing arrangements.
Freehold and long lease buildings (i.e. those with a capital value) transferred to Trillium from the Department of Social Security in April 1998. Modern leasehold properties are not listed.
| Property name | Freehold or Leasehold
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|---|
| Aberdare Crown Building | F
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| Aberdeen Greyfriars House | F
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| Abertillery Crown Buildings | F
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| Aberystwyth Crown Buildings | L
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| Aberystwyth Old Welsh | L
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| Bromley Westmorland Road | F
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| Burton-upon-Trent Crown Building | F
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| Caerphilly Crown Buildings | F
|
| Campbeltown Hall Street | F
|
| Cannock Beecroft Road | F
|
| Canterbury Nutwood House | F
|
| Cardiff Government Buildings | F
|
| Carmarthan Danybank Road | F
|
| Castleford Wheldon Road | F
|
| Chatham The Brook | F
|
| Chelmsford Beeches Road | F
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| Cheltenham Rivershill House | F
|
| ChesterLeStreet Station Road | F
|
| Chippenham St. Pauls House | F
|
| Chorley St. Marys Walk | L
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| Clitheroe Primrose Mill | F
|
| Clydebank Radnor House | L
|
| Coatbridge South Circular Road | F
|
| Colchester Crown Building | F
|
| Coventry Cofa Court | F
|
| Cowdenbeath Factory Road | F
|
| Crawley The Boulevard | F
|
| Dartford Crown Buildings | L
|
| Derby Forester House | F
|
| Derby St. Andrews House | F
|
| Dewsbury Rishworth Road | F
|
| Diss Dominion House | F
|
| Dumfries Irish Street | F
|
| Dumfries Tormore | F
|
| Dundee Magdalene Yard Road | F
|
| Edinburgh Argyle House | L
|
| Edinburgh Haymarket House | F
|
| Edinburgh High Street-Portobello | F
|
| Elgin Trinity Road | F
|
| Ellesmere Port Whitby Road | F
|
| Exeter Melrose House Unit 1 | L
|
| Falkirk Antonine House | F
|
| Falkirk Callendar Park | F
|
| Falkirk Callendar Park | F
|
| Falkirk Heron House | F
|
| Falkirk Heron House (PAU) | F
|
| Fareham Crown Office | L
|
| Folkestone Palting House | F
|
| Frome Northover House | F
|
| Galashiels Market Street | F
|
| Garston Cressington House | F
|
| Glasgow Atlas Road | F
|
| Glasgow Coustonholm Road | F
|
| Glasgow Crosshill Road | F
|
| Glasgow Minerva Street | F
|
| Glasgow Muslin Street | F
|
| Glasgow Nitshill Road | F
|
| Glasgow Northgate | F
|
| Goole Burlington House | F
|
| Grantham Crown House | F
|
| Great Yarmouth Yarmouth Way | F
|
| Grimsby Cleethorpes Road | F
|
| Grimsby Crown House | L
|
| Halifax Crossfield House | F
|
| Hamilton Douglas Street | F
|
| Harlow Beaufort House | F
|
| Hartlepool Crown Building | F
|
| Hartlepool Crown House | F
|
| Hastings Ashdown House | F
|
| Havant Elmleigh Road | F
|
| Haywards Heath Oaklands | L
|
| Hexham St. Andrews House | F
|
| Hinchley Wood KingstonByPass |
|
| Houghton LeSpring Broadway House | F
|
| Hull Government Buildings | F
|
| Hyde Beech House | L
|
| Ilkeston Crown Buildings | F
|
| Newcastle Saxon House | F
|
| Newton Abbott Ilford Park | F
|
| Newton Stewart Victoria Street | F
|
| Newtown Afon House | F
|
| Northallerton Elder House | F
|
| Northampton Gladstone Road East | L
|
| Northshields Unicom House | F
|
| Northwich Hartford House | F
|
| Nottingham David Lane | F
|
| Ormskirk Moorgate | F
|
| Orpington The Walnuts | F
|
| Oxford Harcourt House | L
|
| Paisley Lonend | F
|
| Penrith Voreda House | F
|
| Penzance Branwell House | F
|
| Peterhead Government Buildings | F
|
| Peterlee Hatfield House | F
|
| Plymouth Crownhill Court | F
|
| Pontefract Newgate | F
|
| Pontllanfraith Ennisclare | F
|
| Poole Park Road | F
|
| Port Glasgow Scarlow Street | F
|
| Preston Albert Edward House | L
|
| Preston Cop Lane | F
|
| Preston Diadem House | L
|
| Redcar Dawson House | F
|
| Redhill London Road | F
|
| Rochdale Newgate House | L
|
| Romford Crown House | F
|
| Rossendale Hurstdale House | F
|
| Salisbury Crown Buildings | F
|
| Scunthorpe Crown Buildings | F
|
| Selby Abbey House | F
|
| Sheffield Eastern Avenue | L
|
| Shipley Woolcombers Hall | F
|
| Shotts Dyfrig Street | F
|
| Shrewsbury Whitehall | F
|
| Skegness Government Buildings | F
|
| Skipton Cavendish House | F
|
| Smethwick Church Hill Street | F
|
| Southend Prittlewell Chase | L
|
| Southend Victoria House | F
|
| St. Albans Beauver House | F
|
| St. Helens Manor House | F
|
| Stanley Towneley House | F
|
| St. Austell Carlyon House | F
|
| Stevenage Danestrate | F
|
| Stirling St. Ninian's Road | F
|
| Stornoway Castle Street | F
|
| Stranraer Ashwood Drive | F
|
| Sutton-in-Ashfield Crown Building | F
|
| Swindon Spring Gardens House | F
|
| Torbay Cotswold House | F
|
| Trowbridge Homefield House | F
|
| Twickenham Crown Buildings | F
|
| Uxbridge Colham House | F
|
| Wakefield Crown House | L
|
| Walsall Lower Hall Lane | L
|
| Welling High Street (30–40) | F
|
| Whitehaven Mark House | F
|
| Wick Girnigoe Street | F
|
| Wigan Griffin House | L
|
| Wigan Mesnes House | L
|
| Wishaw Alexander Street | L
|
| Worthing Crown Building | F
|
| Wrexham Hightown Barracks | F
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