Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2018 to Question 132087, on Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Buildings, what the annual cost of occupying those buildings is.

The annual cost of our rented property is £ 1,312,214.

The annual cost of buildings we occupy through agreements with other government departments is £10,152,449.

The properties we occupying by agreement with other government departments represent better value for money for the tax payer.

In acknowledgement of this fact we are scheduled to surrender the remaining commercial lease in favour of further co-location with government departments in alignment with the wider government estates strategy.