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Dept of Health

Answer

Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the buildings occupied by his departmental and agency staff which require (a) remedial work on and (b) removal of asbestos; what this work will cost; what budgets are available for this work for (i) 2004 and (ii) 2005; and what budget is available for future asbestos surveys. [159653] Mr. Hutton: The presence of asbestos is recorded in the following buildings occupied by the Department of Health, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies, where the Department has responsibility for the building or building fabric. Plans have been established for both removal and remedial works. The estimated costs of such works are shown in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Building Estimated cost (£) Wellington House, London SE1 8UG 16,500 Eileen House, London SE1 6EF 9,500 Market Towers, London SW8 5NQ 650,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Costs of removal are provided by the overall maintenance budgets for the Department of Health Estate for 2003-04 and 2004-05.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

418 c1815-6W;418 c1819-20W; 159653

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Costs Executive agencies Buildings Asbestos Finance Health and safety Government departments Surveying Department of Health

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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