MHCLG sets timeframe for move to new headquarters
27 May Property & Estates

MHCLG sets timeframe for move to new headquarters

Plus, Department for Work and Pensions delays departure from Caxton House until March next year
by Jim Dunton
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Office-working decisions ‘should be for individual managers’, shadow chancellor says
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Read the spring 2024 issue of Civil Service World
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Read the spring 2024 issue of Civil Service World
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