Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will review her departmental estate in order to reduce costs; and if she will make a statement.
Defra has rationalised its estate significantly since 2010 realising baseline property cost savings of £51 million per annum up to June 2014.
Defra has a property review and estates rationalisation programme to identify and deliver new opportunities to increase efficiency and reduce property costs.