HC Deb 09 December 1993 vol 234 cc352-3W
Mr. Home Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much land, by acreage, his Department owns in each of the counties of Wales, and in each of the regions of Scotland.

Mr. Hanley

The land owned in areas by the Ministry of Defence in each of the counties of Wales and in each of the regions of Scotland is set out in the table.

Acres
Wales
Clwyd 796
Dyfed 16,596
Acres
Gwent 1,646
Gwynedd 1,967
Mid Glamorgan 20
Powys 29,798
South Glamorgan 988
West Glamorgan 2
Total 51,813
Scotland
Borders Nil
Central 193
Dumfries and Galloway 11,727
Fife 3,267
Grampian 5,130
Highland 6,884
Lothian 2,854
Strathclyde 13,791
Tayside 3,568
Orkney Isles 10
Shetland Isles 84
Western Isles 3,254
Total 50,762

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.

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