2023 Report details for project: Building Our Future Locations Programme

Project name Building Our Future Locations Programme - there are 7 reports for this project: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
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Organisation HMRC (D25) - see all reports for this organisation
Report year 2023 (data is from September 2022)
Category Transformation - see all reports for this category
Description: HMRC's Locations Strategy, announced in 2015, is key to enabling its wider transformation. The Locations Strategy is delivering the Phase One Government Hubs and supports the Governments Places for Growth Programme by creating opportunities and career paths in towns and cities across the UK.HMRC's new estate provides safe, modern and inclusive workspaces with high-speed digital infrastructure enabling improved collaboration, smarter working and enabling a culture where everyone feels valued. These incorporate flexible layouts that will meet future changing demands and priorities.
DCA (RAG) Green
DCA text: Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the DCA rating at 22/23-Q4 remained at Green (SRO rating). This is primarily due to the following factors.The Programme has now successfully delivered 12 regional centres and 2 Specialist Sites, with 11 of these being awarded Inclusive Environments Recognition by the Construction Industry Council (CIC). During Financial Year 2022/23, the Locations Programme successfully opened a further 3 regional centres in Nottingham, Glasgow and Manchester, enabling over 10k HMRC staff to move into those new offices within the planned timescales. Following the lifting of lock down restrictions, we were also finally able to hold the opening ceremonies for 10 of our new regional centres. Ourremaining projects are at a stage where we are still considering options and Outline Business Cases will be produced from Q1 23/24 onwards.
Start date 2016-01-05
End date 2026-03-31
Schedule text Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's end-date at 22/23-Q4 remained schedule to finish on 2026-03-31. This is primarily due to the following factors. The current assumption is that the programme end date will be 2028/29, to allow the safe delivery of our remaining deliveries and to the conclude our work on Phase 1 of the Government Hubs.
Baseline £221.20m
Forecast £232.79m
Variance 5.00%
Variance text: The budget variance exceeds 5%. 2022/23 full year final position at end of Q4 is 32% lower than baseline. This is primarily due to the baseline position included 9.6m for Moves Assistance Payments (MAP, formerly Daily Travel Allowance) which the programme no longer funds, and revised delivery timelines in several projects, and a move to Hybrid working which greatly reduces the cost to HMRC.
Whole Life Cost £2,836.00m
WLCost text: Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's departmental-agree Whole Life Cost at 22/23-Q4 remained at 2836m. This is primarily due to the following factors. The baseline Whole Life Cost as at Q4 2022/23 is unchanged from 2,836m reported in the 2021/22 report. It has not been formally updated since the Programme Business Case v1.0 was approved by HMT in April 2017.
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