HC Deb 14 June 2004 vol 422 cc636-7W
Malcolm Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to his answer of 15 March 2004,Official Report, column 44W, on asbestos, what his Department estimated the cost would be of compiling a central register of surveyed buildings occupied by departmental staff including agencies which require remedial work on asbestos or the removal of asbestos. [176798]

Mr. Caplin

For the defence estate, asbestos information is held locally at each establishment/site. It has been estimated that gathering the current data from within the Department, its agencies and trading funds (including information currently held on each establishment's asbestos register) would cost approximately £45,000.