§ Mrs. EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what his estimate is of land and property(a) in Scotland, (b) in the United Kingdom, (c) overseas and (d) in total for (i) his core Department and (ii) the Employment Service; and what is the total value of other assets held by each of these bodies. [99841]
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§ Mr. Wills[holding answer 26 November 1999]: For the core Department, we are unable to provide value information because it is being developed as part of the implementation of resource accounting. The information is currently being audited. The first set of resource accounts will be published in respect of 1999–2000.
Value information for the Employment Service (ES) is set out as follows. These values have been derived from accounting information used to produce the audited 1998–99 ES published accounts.
As at 31 March 1999: £ Total value of Land and Property in ES (a) In Scotland 16,056,242 (b) In the United Kingdom 125,118,000 (c) Overseas 0 Total 141,174,242 Total value of all other assets held by ES (a) In Scotland 1,714,746 (b) In the United Kingdom 77,070,000 (c) Overseas 0 Total 78,784,746