Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Mapeley Group paid for the estate at Proxy Court, Dover; and where the company which paid for the estate is based.

Previous replies have explained that the department's freehold interest in the site at Priory Court, Dover (also know as Custom House) was sold to Mapeley Limited as part of the STEPS contract in 2001. When the department sold the properties, a price was paid based on the value of the whole estate, not individual properties.

The question of ownership of former HMRC properties (now owned by Mapeley STEPS Ltd) is dealt with in the Public Accounts Committee's Thirty Second report, “ HM Revenue and Customs' estate private finance deal eight years on”, which was published on 8 April 2010.