Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much land his Department has released for the purpose of building new homes since May 2010.

Since 2010 the Government Property Unit, based in the Cabinet Office, has helped the Government reduce the size of its estate by over 2 million square metres. As at March 2014 Government had released land with capacity for 76,000 homes under the current public sector land programme, towards a target of 100,000 by end March 2015.

The Cabinet Office has two land holdings: (i) an operational site at Hannington; and, (ii) the Sunningdale Park site, which is subject to a Private Finance Initiative contract. The Sunningdale Park site is not subject to a lease break until 2017.

Therefore the Cabinet Office has not been in a position to release any land since May 2010.