§ Mr AncramTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the oral statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer of Monday 12 July 2004,Official Report, columns 1129–39, on the spending review, what percentage of the 1.4 per cent. spending increase allocated to his Department will be given back to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the form of departmental assets to be sold off under his £30 billion Government asset sale. [185004]
§ Mr. StrawNone. We have an agreed asset-recycling programme with Her Majesty's Treasury which allows the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to reinvest estate sales receipts, primarily for the modernisation of the estate both overseas and in the UK.