Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Buildings

(asked on 22nd March 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Jon Trickett Portrait
Jon Trickett
(Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to Answer of 22 March 2018 to Question 132216 on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: buildings, if he will provide that data by (a) size and (b) amount spent by his Department.

Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 29th March 2018

The Core Department occupies sites on the following basis:

Occupation

Size sq.m.

Cost £ per annum

Rented

86,903

50,217,196

Owned

159,416

34,801,763

Other types

14,280

13,667,163

260,599

98,686,122

The size is provided for all buildings on a net internal floor area basis excluding the area (hectares) of land holdings.

The annual cost is the 2017/18 budget forecast for total property holding cost.

Defra has reduced annual property holdings costs from £170m in 2010 to an expected £98.6m as at March 2018.

Property size and cost data was published in the State of the Estate Report for 2015/16 on 2nd February 2017. The web link below will take the reader to the report on Gov.uk.

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/588811/2015-16_State_of_the_Estate_Report_final__1_.pdf

Size is referenced in Appendix B and Defra data is on page 47.

Cost is referenced in Appendix D and Defra data is on Page 52.

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