HC Deb 26 January 2004 vol 417 cc56-9W
Mr. Maples

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list residential properties sold by his Department since June 1997, and the net cash proceeds of each. [149856]

Mr. Rammell

Since June 1997 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has sold the following residential accommodation:

Head of post residences Staff accommodation Properties
1997–98
Paris OECD 1
Zurich 1
Bogota 1 Flat
Buenos Aires 1 Flat
Canberra 1 House
Capetown 1 House
Geneva 1 House
Georgetown 1 House
Harare 1 House
Helsinki 2 Houses, 1 Flat
Johannesburg 1 House
Lusaka 4 House
Madrid l Flat
Maputo 1 House
Maseru 2 Houses
Paris 7 Flats
Pretoria 1 House
Reykjavik 1 House
The Hague 2 Flats
Tirana 1 House
Wellington 1 House
Windhoek 1 House
1998–99
Lille 1
Marseilles 1
Copenhagen 2 Flats
Dublin 1 House
Geneva 4 Flats
Honiara 1 House
Johannesburg 2 Houses
Mbabane 1 House
Oslo 1 House
Ottawa 2 Houses
Paris 2 Flats
Ports of Spain 1 House
Pretoria Blocks of Flats
The Hague 1 Flat
1999–2000
Cleveland 1
Bogota 1 Flat
Bonn 1 House

Head of post residences Staff accommodation Properties
Bridgetown 1 House
Budapest 1 House
Gevena 2 Flats
Johannesburg 1 Flat
Kuala Lumpur 1 Flat
Madrid 1 House
Mbabane 1 House
Paris 2 Flats
Port Moresby 2 Houses
Santiago 1 House
Stockholm 2 Flats
Sydney 1 House
Tel Aviv 1 House
2000 to 2001
Bonn 1
Bonn 1 House
Cairo 2 Houses
Capetown 1 House
Dares Salaam Block of 6 Flats
1 Dublin 2 Houses
Geneva 1 Flat
Helsinki 1 House
Jakarta 1 House
Kuala Lumpur 1 Flat, 1 House
Lagos Block of 6 Flats
Lisbon 1 House
Madrid 1 House
Nairobi 1 House
Nassau 1 House
Ottawa 3 Flats
Singapore 1 House
2001–2002
Munich 1
Paris 1
St. John's 1
Athens 3 Flats
Bogota 5 Flats
Brussels 1 House, 1 Flat
Buenos Aires 2 Houses
Cairo 1 House
Capetown 3 Houses
Chicago 1 House
Dares Salaam 1 House
Dublin 1 House
Geneva 1 Flat
Helsinki 1 House, 2 Flats
Jakarta 1 House
Kingston 1 House
Kuala Lumpur 2 Houses
Lagos 2 Houses
Lusaka 1 House
Montevideo 1 Flat
New York 2 Flats
Oslo 1 House
Ottawa 1 House
Paris 6 Flats
Port of Spain 1 House, 1 Flat
Santiago 1 Flat
Stanley 1 House
Stockholm 1 House
Sydney 1 House
Tel Aviv 4 Houses
The Hague 3 Flats
Valetta 1 House
Vienna 1 House
Washington 1 House, 6 Flats
2002–2003
Lyon 1
Amman 1 House
Bridgetown 4 Houses
Canberra 2 Houses
Dakar 1 House
Dublin 2 Houses

Head of post residences Staff accommodation Properties
Durban 1 House
Lagos 1 House
Lilongwe 6 Houses
Lusaka 1 House
Madrid 1 Flat, 1 House
Muscat 2 Houses
Ottawa 1 Flat
Paris 2 Flats
Pretoria 1 House
Reykjavik 1 House
Santiago 1 House
Strasbourge 1 House
Washington 1 House, 2 Flats
2003–2004
Gothenburg 1
Guatemala 1
Ho Chi Minh City 1
San Francisco 1
Auckland 1 House
Budapest 1 Flat
Buenos Aires 1 Flat
Capetown 1 House
Dublin 1 House
Gaberone 2 Houses
Ho Chi Minh City 3 Properties
Madrid 1 House
Nairobi 3 Houses
Port of Spain 1 House
Washington 6 Houses, 1 Flat

Note:

The total receipts for the period covered is £88.5 million.

For reasons of commercial confidentiality the FCO cannot give under exemption 13 of Part 2 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information individual sales figures.

Mr. Maples

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the residential properties purchased by his Department since June 1997, and the total cash of each. [149857]

Mr. Rammell

Since June 1997 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has purchased the following residential properties:

Descriptions
Properties
1 April 1997 to 31 March 1998 Antananarivo: Residence
Bridgetown: Staff house
Kyiv: Staff Flat
The Hague: Staff Flat
Vienna: UK Residence
1 April 1998 to 31 March 1999 Montevideo: Staff Flat
Seoul: Staff house
1 April 1999 to 31 March 2000 Budapest: Staff house
Georgetown: Residence
Gothenberg: Residence
Ottawa: Staff accommodation
1 April 2000 to 31 March 2001 Antigua: Residence
Bucharest: Residence
Caracas: Staff Accommodation
Dublin: Residence
Dublin: Staff house
Ottawa: Staff house
Port of Spain: Staff house
Santiago: Staff House

Descriptions
Properties
Vilnius: Residence
Yerevan: Residence
1 April 2001 to 31 March 2002 Berne: Staff House
Guatemala: Residence
Kyiv: Residence
Stockholm: Staff House
1 April 2002 to 31 March 2003 New York: Residence
Durban: Staff House
Plymouth: Residence
1 April 2003 to date San Francisco: Residence
Total expenditure £28.5 million

The FCO is withholding information in individual purchase figures under exemption 12 of Part 2 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.

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