BEIS to bring 400 jobs to Salford by 2025

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s new Salford site has been officially opened by Business and Energy Minister Greg Hands.

The opening is part of a wider government move to ensure policy makers work reflects the communities they serve, while making certain economic growth and job opportunities are more evenly distributed across the UK.

The new office is expected to become the home of 420 business department jobs by 2025, increasing to up to 570 by 2030. The new office space opened for use from 9 August 2021 and offers a host of accessible facilities having been recently refurbished. Around 75 current BEIS staff members will be relocated by April 2023, with a further 162 new employees being recruited by the end of this year.

Hands said: “It’s a real pleasure to see the site first-hand and meet many of the staff who will develop and deliver our plans to combat climate change and drive clean growth, just a week after the launch of the government’s Net Zero Strategy. Not only does it mean that civil servants will be physically closer to the heart of the action on net zero in the North, but they will also benefit from all that Salford has to offer.”