§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the buildings currently owned or rented by his Department, together with(a) the estimated value, (b) the annual rent and (c) the annual maintenance cost of each building in the current financial year.
§ Mr. BaldryProperty Holdings, part of the Department of the Environment, was set up in 1990 to manage the Government common user office estate and holds something in excess of 3,000 properties.
(a) An up-to-date capital valuation of these premises is not available but the estate was last valued at just over £2 billion in 1990. More detailed current information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
194W(b) Individual rentals are commercial-in-confidence and cannot be released. However, Property Holdings total estimated rent bill for 1993–94 is £585.4 million.
(c) Maintenance responsibility for the common user estate is shared between Property Holdings and occupying Departments. Some Departments hold on full repairing terms whereas others occupy on an internal repairing basis. Individual maintenance costs therefore are not available within my Department. Property Holdings total maintenance costs for 1993–94 are estimated at £112.84 million.