HC Deb 15 October 2001 vol 372 cc978-9W
Mr. Weir

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will estimate the total running costs for buildings used, owned or rented by her Department for each nation and region of the UK, and estimate the average cost per square metre for properties used by her Department as a whole, and by region and nation of the UK. [6837]

Ms Hewitt

The estimated Running costs for Department of Trade and Industry properties in the United Kingdom for the financial year 2001–02 are shown in the table.

Area/m2 Total running cost (£) Cost (£)/m2
Nation
England 101,014.65 50,381,200.00 498.75
Scotland 11,993.00 1,524,000.00 127.07
Wales 3,359.00 211,000.00 62.82
Northern Ireland 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total UK 116.366.65 52,116,200.00 447.86
English regions
North East 1,330.65 136,200.00 102.21
North West 309.00 82,000.00 265.37
Yorkshire and Humber 2,016.00 401,000.00 198.91
East Midlands 213.00 54,000.00 253.52
West Midlands 1,349.00 389,000.00 288.36
East 1,316.00 220,000.00 167.17
South East 701.00 249,000.00 355.21
South West 190.00 13,000.00 68.42
London 93,590.00 48,837,000.00 521.82
Total regions 101,014.65 50, 381,200.00 498.75
Note:
Total running costs exclude VAT

Ms Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what(a) building and (b) refurbishment projects are planned by her Department in (i) the current year and (ii) the next financial year; and what the costs will be of each project. [6592]

Ms Hewitt

The Department has two projects exceeding £1,000,000.

The extension of the Conference Centre in 1 Victoria Street is forecast to cost £3,191,000. The expenditure is spread over three financial years.

Year £
2000–01 416,000
2001–02 2,709,000
2002–03 66,000

Mrs. May

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the number, value and location of properties newly leased in each of the last five years by her Department, broken down by leases by the Department itself, its next step agencies and its non-departmental public bodies, differentiating between purchases made as a result of the creation of new bodies and those purchases made by established bodies. [7820]

Nigel Griffiths

This information is not held centrally and to obtain this information would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold.

The PFI project to provide serviced accommodation for the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington involves a capital cost to the PFI contractor of £82,000,000.