HC Deb 25 June 1981 vol 7 cc179-81W
Mr. Allan Roberts

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what maintenance activities of the Property Services Agency exist in Bootle, Merseyside; and at what cost;

(2) if he will list the properties owned by the Property Services Agency in the area of the metropolitan district of Sefton, Merseyside, giving their purpose; how many are vacant; and for how long they have stood empty.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

The Property Services Agency undertakes the maintenance of all Government occupied buildings and their services in Bootle, Merseyside. The district works office is in Bootle. Expenditure by PSA on maintenance works in 1979–80 amounted to £98,000. The figure for 1980–81 is not yet available.

for Wolverhampton, North-East on 28 April, Official Report, c. 378–380, if he will separate the estimated numbers of working families with children and with incomes below supplementary benefit levels for 1975, 1976 and 1977 into (a) the number of one-parent families and (b) the number of two-parent families.

Mrs. Chalker

The information is shown in the following table. Working families in this context are those in which the head of the family was working full-time for an employer or was self-employed.

The table below lists the properties in the area of the metropolitan district of Sefton, Merseyside, which are owned by the Property Services Agency. None of the buildings is vacant.

Property and Purpose:

Bootle

  • Linacre House Stanley Precinct—DHSS Area Office and PSA Liverpool District Works Office
  • Park Street Park Place—DE Unemployment Benefit Office
  • 64/68 Balliol Road—IR Staff Restaurant
  • St John's House Stanley Precinct—Building only partially completed for occupants; completed part now occupied by OPCS. Other departments take occupation later this year.
  • Gladstone Dock Branch No 1—C & E Landing and Shipping Office
  • Hornby Dock North Side—MAFF Marketing Inspectors
  • Alexandra Dock South Side No 3—C & E Landing and Shipping Office
  • SE Brockle Bank Dock Carriers Dock—C & E Garage

Formby

  • Look-out Hut Albert Road—Department of Trade Coastguard
  • 79 Ashcroft Road—Coastguard House
  • Coastguard Station Queens Road—Coastguard Station and Houses

Blundell Sands

  • Coastguard Station Hall Road West Blundell Sands—Coastguard Station

Crosby

  • Seaforth Dock Berth S/2—C & E Landing and Shipping Office
  • Seaforth Dock Berth S/5—C & E Landing and Shipping Office

Southport

  • Esplanade Site—Originally site for Crown Building for OPCS, but contract deteminded in August 1979 following reappraisal of Government expenditure. Disposal action now being taken.