Welcome to the Summer 2009 Public Sector e-bulletin, bringing you news of the latest investment and expansion within Manchester City Region. |
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The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has moved into their new offices at the heart of Manchester city centre, following their relocation announcement in September 2008.
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As the refurbishment of Piccadilly Gate - a cross departmental public sector hub for three agencies - moves on a pace, Manchester is looking to create a much larger civil service campus. In June 2010 both Government Office for the Northwest and the Highways Agency will be moving across town to sit alongside the Training and Development Agency for Schools, which is fully relocating from London, to fill Piccadilly Gate with over 1,000 civil servants. By 2014 more than 5,000 civil servants could be based at the new Mayfield campus, also alongside Piccadilly Station, as part of the Civil Service in the English Regions initiative.
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Manchester’s healthcare cluster continues to grow |
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Government health agency NICE – The National Institute for Clinical Excellence
– is doubling the size of its Manchester operation and increasing its occupation of Piccadilly’s City Tower by 25,000 sq ft, following an extremely successful integration into the city. NICE has seen significant cost savings as a result of their move towards a complementary split between London and Manchester and are now looking at a projected headcount of 290 staff by the end of 2009.
Similarly successful has been the continued growth of the General Medical Council (GMC),
which is expanding across the city into new premises at Spinningfields. Following their arrival in Manchester in 2002, when 40 staff were recruited locally, the GMC have continued to transfer functions from London, and headcount has now reached the 300 mark.
For further information see the MIDAS case studies on NICE
and GMC’s successful expansions in Manchester.
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2009 sees The College of Law, the UK’s leading provider of professional education and training for lawyers, establish a new £5.5 million centre in the Piccadilly area of the city - a further step in strengthening the region’s legal sector, which benefited from the establishment of a new Civil Justice Centre in 2008. As the biggest court complex to be built in the UK since the Royal Courts of Justice in London in 1882, the Civil Justice Centre has enhanced the attraction of the city’s Spinningfields developmentas a judicial hub; the development has accommodated the Crown Courts and the New Magistrates Courts since Spring 2004.
For further information see the MIDAS College of Law case study>>
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