Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 16
16
Not Addressed
Departments are responsible for including Arm's Length Body properties within their Strategic Asset Management Plans.
Conclusion
Responsibilities for property management vary across departments. Some manage the property of their ALBs, which includes acquisitions, disposals, maintenance, improvement works and facilities management. Others delegate management responsibilities to their ALBs.28 We questioned the OGP as to how much knowledge it had of ALBs’s property management plans, to which it responded that departments are responsible for including ALB properties within their own SAMPs. It also stated that it has required some particular ALBs with a focus on property management to prepare separate SAMPs. These include the Government Property Agency, and as of this year, Homes England (previously included within the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s SAMP).29
Government Response Summary
The response addresses a different PAC conclusion regarding departments' property plans, not the conclusion about property management responsibilities.
Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government
Not Addressed
3. PAC conclusion: Many departments’ property plans lack the information necessary to manage and maintain their portfolios.