To ask the Minister of Finance to outline his plans for the future of his Department’s office estate.

My Department is responsible for the Reform of Property Management (RPM) Programme which was established to deliver the NI Executive’s Asset Management Strategy objectives. These objectives are to: (1) reduce the net costs of service delivery through the efficient use of public assets; and, (2) promote effective asset management processes that unlock value.

The Department’s plans for the office estate are outlined as follows:

1) continue to rationalise the central government office estate;

2) continue to modernise the central government estate;

3) to promote and implement new ways of working that reduce reliance on the central government office estate and build resilience to deliver public services in the future.