Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's report, a Better Defence Estate, published in November 2016, on how many occasions officials of his Department met with officials of (a) the Department for Communities and Local Government and (b) the Cabinet Office to discuss plans for the defence estate.

Since the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) of 2015 Ministry of Defence (MOD) officials have engaged regularly with the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). The MOD also provides a quarterly return to DCLG on the Department's performance against the Public Sector Land Sales target and how the achievement of this target contributes to the strategic plans for the Defence Estate set out in "A Better Defence Estate".

Defence officials routinely meet with officials from the Cabinet Office and other Government Departments to discuss the Government's housing programme.