The Housing Corporation is to relocate some of its staff to the regions as it makes the efficiency savings demanded by the chancellor in the comprehensive spending review.

The corporation’s new chief executive, Jon Rouse, said some of the 180 or so employees based at the quango’s two central London offices would move.

He will make a statement about the scale of the relocation within the next two weeks.

He said: “We still have to sort out some of the details but there will be some relocations – and the staff are already aware.”

The relocation has been on the cards since Sir Michael Lyons’ report on the benefits of moving civil servants out of London was published in March.

The ODPM will cut 400 jobs by 2008 and relocate a further 240 staff outside the capital by 2010 under plans announced in Monday’s review.

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Housing Today