§ Pete WishartTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will estimate the total annual running costs for buildings used, owned or rented by his Department for each nation and region of the UK, and estimate the average cost per square metre for properties used by his Department as a whole, and by region and nation of the UK. [6783]
§ Mr. LeslieEstimates for the total running costs (in total and on an average cost per metre basis) for the financial year 2000–01 in respect of buildings used, owned or rented by my Department are as follows.294W
Country/region Total running cost (£000) Average costs per m2 (£/m2) Scotland 25 606 Wales 14 92 London 26,405 409 South West 95 238 South East 3,298 237 North West 104 262 East of England 75 221 Yorkshire and Humberside 90 210 East Midlands 49 269 North East 41 162 West Midlands 103 233 Total England 30,260 374 The figures in the table exclude:
- (a) Running costs totalling some £523,000, mainly in respect of the Emergency Planning College in Yorkshire, where building costs on a square metre basis are not currently available.
- (b) Some £34,000 in respect of running costs incurred by the Central Office of Information on accommodation in Wales, Scotland and the South West where cost on per square metre basis is not known.
- (c) Figures in respect of the Government Offices for the Regions and the Regional Co-ordination Unit, which have been included in the answer supplied by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.
- (d) Accommodation that the Cabinet Office owns but is occupied by another and those buildings that were vacant during the above period.
- (e) VAT.