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Setting up your office
Accommodation Whips are responsible for allocating offices Members’
Accommodation
to Members. They may need to agree other moves to make
Manager x3080
a room available. Once this has been done, we aim to have
Works Help Desk
you up and running in your new office within a week. The x4747
Accommodation Office will contact you to plan the details of Raise work
requests online
your office (layout, furniture and telephone arrangements).
archibus.
parliament.uk/pw
Experience shows that it is sensible to delay ordering IT
equipment for use at Westminster until office allocation has
taken place.
For any accommodation requests or problems, you should
contact either the Members’ Accommodation Manager or
staff at the reception desk in your building. If you experience
technical problems – for example with plumbing, ventilation
or heating – you should report them to the Works Help Desk.

PLEASE NOTE: Use of office space as sleeping accommodation is not allowed. The Estate,
with the exception of designated residential properties such as the Speaker’s House, is
classified and certified as office accommodation and the life safety fire precautions in
place meet the associated office based standards. If you are working at an hour when you
would not usually be expected to be in your office, please inform security staff of your
presence.
IT equipment
Parliamentary Information and Communications Technology PICT Service Desk
x2001
(PICT), a joint department of both Houses of Parliament,
pictservicedesk@
is responsible for the provision of ICT services to Members.
parliament.uk
You are offered a Parliamentary Network account which will
give you access to a parliamentary email account, including
an email address and secure storage space on the network
for your files and documents. Only equipment provided by
Parliament may be connected directly to the Parliamentary
Network.

You are entitled to five computers in total, of which up to
three may be laptops, with PCs making up the remainder. In
addition, you are entitled to a maximun of two printers.