§ Mr. MaplesTo 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. RammellSince June 1997 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has sold the following residential accommodation:
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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 58W
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. MaplesTo 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. RammellSince June 1997 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has purchased the following residential properties:
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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.