Blythe House Programme

Rating: The Senior Responsible Owner's Delivery Confidence Assessment rating at 23/24-Q4 is Amber. This is primarily due to the following factors. This is primarily due to the impact of COVID-19 and the delay in the V&A's Practical Completion of the V&A East Storehouse which impacted on the decant timetable. The British Museum and the Science Museum Group completed the move of their collections to their newly constructed storage facilities in 23/24. The V&A is making good progress with its decant to the V&A Storehouse which will be finalised over the Summer. The sale of the Blythe House site is underway. DCMS remains confident that the programme's aims of protecting the museum collections and maximising the sale value of Blythe House will still be met.

Schedule: The project's end-date at 23/24-Q4 is 2024-06-28. This is primarily due to the following factors. The change in end date is due to adding contingency to the V&A's decant schedule to ensure vacation of Blythe House in time for sale completion.

Cost: Compared to financial year 22/23-Q4, the project's departmental-agree Whole Life Cost at 23/24-Q4 remained at 240m. This is primarily due to the following factors: The very small variance is due to rounding off. Also to note the programme WLC remains at 240m with no additional funding as the programme is coming to an end.

Source: IPA Annual Report 2023-24 (data)