§ Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the items sold by his Department, its agencies and associated public bodies from those listed in the National Assets Register of November 1997; if he will give in each case the amount of money realised; if he will estimate the total cash raised from such sales to date; and if he will make a statement. [70410]
§ Mr. Fatchett[holding answer 11 February 1999]: The National Assets Register published in November 1997 gave details of asset holdings as at 1 April 1997. Since that date the FCO has sold 58 overseas estate assets and 181 vehicles. Details are as listed. Total proceeds amounted to £12.65m. Property sales in the pipeline are expected to realise a further £40m.
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The FCO sale of assets—Property from 1 April 1997 to date Country Description Number of sales Proceeds (£000) New Zealand Wellington Dwelling 1 58 Namibia Windhoek Dwelling 1 61 Lesotho Maseru Land 2 54 France Paris Dwelling 11 1,011 Residence 1 1,661 Marseilles Residence 1 691 South Africa Johannesburg Dwelling 3 100 Cape Town Dwelling 1 296 Pretoria Dwelling 1 135 Holland The Hague Dwelling 3 226 Zambia Lusaka Dwelling 4 272 Spain Madrid Dwelling 1 91 Mozambique Maputo Dwelling 1 82 Switzerland Zurich Residence 1 1,086 Geneva Dwelling 4 983 Argentina Buenos Aires Dwelling 1 65 Zimbabwe Harare Dwelling 1 32 Finland Helsinki Dwelling 3 541 Guyana Georgetown Dwelling 1 145 Solomon Isles Honiara Dwelling 1 53 Germany Berlin Land 1 127
The FCO sale of assets—Property from 1 April 1997 to date Country Description Number of sales Proceeds (£000) Portugal Oporto Land 1 781 Trinidad Port of Spain Dwelling 1 162 Columbia Bogota Offices 1 539 Dwelling 1 46 Morocco Casablanca Offices 1 863 Swaziland Mbabane Dwelling 1 29 Norway Oslo Dwelling 1 201 Canada Ottawa Dwelling 2 672 Ecuador Quito Residence 1 188 Land 1 135 Australia Canberra Dwelling 1 141 Iceland Reykjavik Dwelling 1 42 Albania Tirana Dwelling 1 65 Proceeds £11.63m Vehicles (From 1 April 1997 to 30 September 1998. The latest date for which information is available) Heavy Commercial 5 Light Commercial 34 Motor Cars 142 Proceeds £ 1.02m Total Proceeds £12.65m