Home Office: Buildings

Home Office written question – answered at on 30 June 2015.

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Photo of Andrew Gwynne Andrew Gwynne Shadow Minister (Health)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the office space owned or leased by her Department is not in regular use; what the total (a) rental and (b) retail value is of all such office space; and if she will place in the Library a copy of her most recent departmental real estate valuation.

Photo of Karen Bradley Karen Bradley The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

While holdings are not classified against frequency of use, 0.34% by area of the Home Office’s office estate can be assessed as not in regular use with an estimated rental value of £125,000 per annum. It is all leased with no retail element and is surplus for disposal. The office estate has been significantly rationalised since 2010 with the priority given to exiting leasehold buildings or sub-lettings to non-Home Office occupiers. The Department fully supports the Governments’ Strategic Land and Property Review which is expected to release land worth £3.5 billion by 2020.

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