Whitehall officials offered move to No 10 North in Manchester

civil servants working in government offices According to information obtained by the BBC, people living in London have been offered relocation packages to encourage them to move to Northern England.

It comes as the first details emerge about the new No 10 North, which has already started work, according to sources close to new Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

The BBC has been told that the Northern branch of Downing Street will be overseen by cabinet minister and Burnham ally Louise Haigh.

Haigh, who is first minister of foreign affairs, is thought to be asked to lead a new Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (OPMC) that would give him control of key decision-making bodies across government.

The OPMC will include teams at No 10, No 10 North and the Cabinet Office.

Announcement of changes,, external Baroness Angela Smith, Leader of the House of Lords, who will also feature an Artificial Intelligence Taskforce, said No 10 North would be the “dominant driver of the UK economy”.

The first location of No. 10 North It will be Heron House in the center of Manchester, in the building where intelligence service GCHQ has its offices. It was seen that specialized police teams were on guard duty in the building.

No 10 North’s long-term base is likely to be at the new government ‘Digital Campus’ currently under construction in Manchester’s Ancoats area. It is not expected to be completed until 2032.

But a good indication of what that might look like comes from a new report released Tuesday.

Plan was written, external by Re:State think tank, which Burnham was involved with until he left the mayoralty of Greater Manchester.