§ Ms MaddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a list of the sites of his Ministry's residential properties in the counties of(a) Dorset, (b) Hampshire, (c) Isle of Wight, (d) Berkshire and (e) Wiltshire; and if he will give for each site both the total number of properties and the number which are currently unoccupied. [30220]
§ Mr. SoamesAs at 31 March, my Department owned the following properties in the areas shown:
Stock Vacancies Dorset 1,631 327 Hampshire 8,880 1,162 Isle of Wight 1 0 Berkshire 1,625 303 Wiltshire 6,819 1,103 Of the vacant properties, 86 in Dorset, 25 in Hampshire, 72 in Berkshire and 168 in Wiltshire were in the process of being sold. Many of the vacant properties were undergoing or awaiting major maintenance work, held for unit deployments, already allotted to families due to move in shortly or formed part of the management margin needed to ensure that accommodation is available for entitled service families.
Information on individual sites is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.