Alexandra Palace and Park

HC Deb 01 December 1997 vol 302 cc47-8W

Mr. Edward Davey

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will place in the Library the correspondence between his Department and the London Borough of Haringey since 1 January 1990 regarding Alexandra Palace and Park; and if he will make a statement. [18193]

Ms Armstrong

The Department has had a considerable volume of correspondence with Haringey over Alexandra Palace and Park in the last seven years. Much of its relates to a deficit of approximately £55 million which the authority has accrued in respect of the property. As such, a large part of the content of these letters is therefore commercially sensitive and is exempt from release to a third party under the Department's Code of Practice on Open Government.

Identifying the correspondence and the information that is confidential would be time-consuming and could not be undertaken except at disproportionate cost.