HC Deb 26 November 2001 vol 375 cc657-8W
14. Tony Baldry

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the future of the defence estate at Bicester. [15088]

Dr. Moonie

There are a number of Ministry of Defence sites in the Bicester area. The Defence Logistics Organisation Caversfield (formerly DCTA Caversfield) is operational. The adjacent Caversfield married quarters are occupied, in the main, by United States forces personnel. RAF Bicester is being promoted through the review of the local plan and is likely to be sold by 2004–05, once the planning issues have been resolved.

At the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency Bicester there are three sites (A, B and G) which are surplus to the long-term requirements of the agency and will no longer be required by them after 2004 or earlier.

The former RAF Upper Heyford site, which became surplus some years ago is subject to a joint venture agreement with North Oxfordshire Consortium.

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