Our vision
Our vision is a smaller, better, greener government office estate, stimulating economic growth across the UK, bringing civil servants closer to the communities they serve.
Established in 2018, we are an executive agency of the Cabinet Office and a public sector property holding company creating great places to work for civil servants.
We are leading one of the most ambitious workplace transformation programmes in the UK – planning and managing a single Civil Service office estate for the benefit of all departments.
As the workplace changes, we’re working with partners to deliver the offices needed for modern government, now and in the future throughout the UK, powering economic growth and public service transformation. Using our property and commercial expertise, our team knows how to create places where people can be more productive, to collaborate and work together in person.
We work closely in partnership with government departments to deliver the space and services they need, delivering value for money for taxpayers, realising significant benefits across the estate, and making ongoing savings. Acting as the government’s subject matter expert in office property, we can see where offices can be shared and used better, and procure services at scale.
We are leading the way on accelerating to net zero – developing state-of-the-art, low carbon offices and upgrading the existing estate to make it more efficient, while addressing the maintenance backlog.
We use our Civil Service know-how and commercial expertise to:
- Deliver on government priorities
- Help the Civil Service to attract the best talent in places across the United Kingdom
- Plan and deliver the government’s office and warehouse portfolios
- Act as the single landlord for our government department clients
- Deliver the Government Hubs Programme
- Provide workplace services to our clients, where required
Considerable progress has been made towards our vision
We are replacing and upgrading the estate; removing the barriers preventing departments from sharing space and collaborating on public services; reducing carbon emissions; and delivering impressive savings.
750,000 civil servants
actively and securely connecting to GovWifi
64 locations
now operating with the seamless GovPass access technology
£51 million
social value delivered across our projects and programmes
Over 60%
of our properties are rated Condition B or better
6 London offices closed
as Civil Service roles were relocated to towns and cities across the UK
Governance simplified 50%
Reduced our governance from eight committees to four
World-leading workplace experience
We were awarded the prestigious Leesman+ certification for our first new build hub, Quay House in Peterborough, recognising a commitment to delivering great places to work for civil servants. We continue to enable regional growth through delivery of the Government Hubs and Whitehall Campus programmes.
Award-winning strategic partnerships
We continue to strengthen strategic partnerships with private sector specialists to improve service quality, generate greater efficiencies and widen capabilities through stronger collaboration. As such we won the “Partners in Corporate, Public Sector” category at the PFM Awards 2024 for our partnership with JLL and the regional supply chain.
1 million+ sqm data capture
We exceeded implementation targets for property technology, now capturing data from more than 1 million square meters of office space.
Our priorities sit in three themes:
Clients and customers
We will continue to put clients (government departments) and customers (civil servants) at the forefront of everything we do, looking to continuously improve our delivery and services to best support meeting their priorities and objectives whilst delivering on the government mandate.
People and partners
We deliver through brilliant, skilled, diverse and empowered people and partners. We must continue to build and develop our culture to create a high performing team which embodies a renewed set of GPA values, where people feel included, trusted and are set up to deliver effectively.
Continuous improvement
Building on our successes and addressing the areas to improve. These include having a realistic and achievable scope of work that is right for clients and customers; having the right structures, governance and reporting metrics and frameworks in place; ensuring leadership and values reflects the culture we aspire to achieve; and having the skills and capabilities of our people that match our organisational goals. This will enable us to be ready for our next phase of growth while ensuring that we are well placed to operate within a more challenging funding environment.
Our four strategic objectives will continue to make a real difference to people and places:
Our programmes
Government Hubs Programme
The Government Hubs Programme is kickstarting economic growth across the UK. It’s a catalyst in regenerating brownfield sites, returning shoppers to high streets and turning unused buildings into collaborative, modern workspaces.
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Westminster Campus Programme
Creating a more efficient, interoperable, sustainable and inclusive workplace for civil servants.
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Regeneration
We are regenerating brownfield sites and turning unused buildings into collaborative, modern workspaces while driving forward the government’s ambition of a smaller, better and greener office estate.
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Net zero and sustainability
We seek to find opportunities for the use of sustainable, clean technologies as well as low and zero carbon energy through renovation, refurbishment, retrofitting and new build.
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