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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 6 July (HL719), what disposal policies each Department applies to freehold property identified as a prospective asset sale that is of significant nature conservation value.

Core Defra holds a very limited number of sites with significant conservation value. None of these sites are under consideration for disposal. However, all assets are disposed in accordance with the policies set out in ‘Managing Public Money’.