§ Mr. David NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much land, by acreage, his Department owns in each of the counties of England.
§ Mr. HanleyThe land owned in acres by the Ministry of Defence in each of the counties of England is set out in the table.
Acres Avon 408 Bedfordshire 3,249 Berkshire 4,722 Buckinghamshire 1,601 Cambridgeshire 6,902 Cheshire 1,006 Cleveland 119 Cornwall 6,731 Cumbria 19,830 Derbyshire 277 Devon 7,391 Dorset 12,177 Durham 415 East Sussex 633 Essex 39,356 Gloucestershire 3,674 Greater London 3,030 Greater Manchester 1,110 Hampshire 31,417 Hereford and Worcester 2,076 Hertfordshire 227 Humberside 2,587 Isle of Wight 12 Kent 13,660 Lancashire 1,549 Leicestershire 2,587 Lincolnshire 14,893 Merseyside 489 Norfolk 26,870 North Yorkshire 31,778 Northamptonshire 2,160 Northumberland 57,061 Nottinghamshire 2,095 Oxfordshire 8,970 Shropshire 4,436 Somerset 1,994 South Yorkshire 1,001 Staffordshire 2,908 Suffolk 8,495 Surrey 11,550 Tyne and Wear 25 Warwickshire 4,030 West Midlands 82 West Sussex 1,819 West Yorkshire 15 Wiltshire 102,143 Figures are at 1 April 1993, the latest date for which records are available, and relate to freehold landholdings, including foreshore, for which deeds were held. Acquisitions or disposals which may have been completed but where deeds had not been transferred by 1 April 1993 are not included.