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Written question asked by Grant Shapps (Conservative) on Friday, 20 March 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 24 March 2009. It was answered by Huw Irranca-Davies (Labour) on Wednesday, 29 April 2009 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Departmental Buildings

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what properties his (a) Department and (b) Department's (i) executive agencies and (ii) the non-departmental public bodies have sold in each of the last five years; and how many of these have been sold for housing development.
Answer

Shown in the following table from the available departmental records are the numbers of disposals of surplus land and buildings noted as completed by the Department, including its executive agencies, during the period in question with the number of sites specifically sold for housing noted against each year:

Sites sold for housing Number of property holdings
2004-05 0 6
2005-06 1 13
2006-07 0 7
2007-08 0 8
2008-09 1 14

The Department does not currently hold details of disposals for its non-departmental public bodies.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
491 c1300W; 266493
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Buildings Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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