§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the(a) high commissions, (b) embassies, (c) buildings and (d) land being considered for sale. [164207]
§ Mr. RammellThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) maintains a pro-active role in the management of its estate. Consideration of prospective sales is continual and we have no definitive list of future sales. In order to preserve the FCO's ability to obtain best value for any individual sale we cannot release general information about possible future sales in advance of individual assets being placed on the market. I am withholding this information under exemption 13 of Part 2 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.
§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the(a) high commissions, (b) embassies, (c) buildings and (d) land which have been sold since 1997. [164206]
§ Mr. RammellI refer my hon. Friend to the answers I gave to the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maples) on 26 January 2004,Official Report, columns 56–58W and to the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) on 29 March 2004, Official Report, column 1148W, which listed the sales of residential accommodation and land.
Since 1997 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has also sold the following office accommodation:
Sold office accommodation 1998–99 British Embassy Bogota British Embassy Casablanca 1999–00 British Embassy Bonn 2000–01 British Consulate Malaga British Consulate Seville 2001–02 British High Commission Mbabane 2002–03 British Consulate Naples British Embassy Tirana 2003–04 British High Commission Capetown