HC Deb 21 July 1994 vol 247 cc555-6W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of Defence how many service properties that were owned by his Department have been sold in each of the last five years; and what was the yearly revenue received from these sales.

Mr. Soames

The term "service properties" is taken to mean land, buildings and residential dwellings. Details of the number of service properties sold are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate costs.

The receipts received from the sale of service properties in each of the last five financial years are set out in the table:

Financial Year Residential Dwellings1 £ Land/ Buildings £ Total £
1989–90 48,000,000 23,200,000 71,200,000
1990–91 46,000,000 34,600,000 80,600,000
1991–92 54,000,000 48,300,000 102,300,000
1992–93 42,000,000 26,200,000 68,200,000
1993–94 29,300,000 41,400,000 70,700,000
1 Married quarters and civilian houses.