§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list all those areas of defence lands sold since May 1979, those recommendations of the Nugent committee report on defence land which still have not been carried out and which of the remaining recommendations he hopes to carry out.
§ Mr. GoodhartI refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment to the hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Marks) on 3 February about the sale of defence property. The Property Services Agency carries out the sale of defence property and no record of sales is kept by this Ministry.
The great majority of the 500 recommendations affecting 329 sites have been implemented. It has not yet been possible to implement the following recommendations of the defence lands committee, but it is still hoped to do so in due course:
- Dover/Folkestone complex, Kent (p. 215 paragraph 18b)
- (but 1 .6 miles of coastline has been released)
- Cranwell, Lincolnshire (p. 228 paragraph 6)
61 - Otterburn, Northumberland (p. 245 paragraph 6e)
- Ollerton (Dukeries) Nottinghamshire (p. 250 paragraph 9)
- Yoxter, Somerset (p. 262 paragraph 5b)
- Orfordness, Suffolk (p. 272 paragraph 5)
- Kenley, Surrey (p. 278 paragraph 8c)
- Pershore, Hereford and Worcestershire (p. 303 paragraph 3)
- Rosneath, Dunbartonshire (p. 364 paragraph 3c)
- Edinburgh (Dreghorn and Castlelaw Hill) Midlothian (p.
- 375-6 paragraphs 24b, c, d, g, h and i)
- Page and paragraph numbers relate to the defence lands committee's report.