Education written question – answered at on 21 March 2011.
Mike Weatherley
Conservative, Hove
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many buildings on his Department's estate were occupied by squatters in each year between 2006 and 2010; and on how many occasions his Department sought interim possession orders to remove squatters from such buildings in each of those years.
Tim Loughton
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
None of the Departments buildings were occupied by squatters during the year 2006 to 2010.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.