HC Deb 28 February 1997 vol 291 c404W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 17 February,Official Report, column 367, what were the total receipts for the sale of the empty homes by the end of summer 1996. [18113]

Mr. Soames

Of the 5,348 disposals, 2,373 formed part of the service families married quarter sale to Annington Homes and the value of surplus homes cannot be separately identified. A total of 2,687 were sold through the normal processes but receipts information is not held centrally and therefore it has not been possible to collate cost data in the time available: I will write to the hon. Member. Two hundred and fifteen houses were demolished as surplus or as part of the demolition and rebuild programme and thus did not attract receipts. Seventy-three houses were leased pending later sale.

The above figures cover the 18-month period to 30 September 1996 and include the Annington Homes sales for which contracts were exchanged on 24 September 1996.