§ Mr. GrayTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what studies the NAO has made of the(a) closure, (b) partial sale and (c) move of military bases since 1997. [24055]
§ Dr. MoonieOn 17 June 1998, the National Audit Office published a report entitled "Identifying and Selling surplus Property" (HC 776), which considered (in Section 5), a number of individual property disposals of former Ministry of Defence (MOD) sites during the financial years 1995–96 and 1996–97, including that of the HM Naval Base, Rosyth. In addition, the National Audit Office in their report on "Training New Pilots" (HC 880 published on 14 September 2000) referred to the MOD's decision to concentrate flying training at fewer 563W locations resulting in the closure and disposal of surplus sites, although the report did not directly consider the disposals themselves.