Minister breaks ground on £40m government hub for 2,500 civil servants

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Cabinet Office Minister Jeremy Quin visited Manchester to break ground on the near-£40million government hub taking place in the city's burgeoning First Street district.

Some 2,500 civil servants will be based in the new northern hub - next to the HOME entertainment complex between Oxford Road and Deansgate rail stations - from 2025.

About 1,800 already based offices at Piccadilly Gate will relocate to First Street to make way for HS2, but there will be 700 new jobs which will move from the South East to Manchester.

Mr Quin told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that the move was a ‘really important milestone’. “We’ve got an objective to get 22,000 out of London and to places like Manchester and we’re now over halfway there,” he said. “We said we’d do it in 10 years, we’re over halfway in just three so there’s a lot of progress being made.