The ‘Hub’ programme is aiming to reduce the government’s estate from about 800 buildings to 200 by 2023, saving approximately £2.4bn over 10 years.

Eversheds won a competitive tender last year to advise on the project, which involves consolidating different government agencies in ‘hub’ buildings in regional cities and moving some civil servants out of expensive central London offices to locations such as Croydon and Canary Wharf.