Government cuts property running costs by £22m in 2017/18

By Emma Shone2018-12-19T13:13:00

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The government cut the size of its estate by 1.7m sq ft in the 2017/18 financial year, reducing its annual running costs by £22m.

The government also generated £750m of capital from the sale of more than 400 sites. This brings total property sales in the last three years to £2.4bn.

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