Foreign and Commonwealth Office written question – answered at on 19 June 2019.
Gareth Thomas
Labour/Co-operative, Harrow West
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish the names and locations of the land and buildings owned by his Department that are (a) sitting empty and (b) in the process of being sold or disposed of; and if he will make a statement.
Andrew Murrison
Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) (Joint with the Department for International Development)
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has no owned vacant property in the UK in the sales programme. The overseas land and buildings owned by the FCO that are both vacant and in our sales programme are set out in the table below:
OVERSEAS POST | PROPERTY USE |
Accra | Staff Units (x6) |
Banjul | Staff Units (x8) |
Bridgetown | Staff Unit |
Lima | Staff Unit |
Nairobi | Staff Unit |
Port Moresby | Staff Unit |
Portimao | Office |
Sao Paulo | Residence |
Skopje | Land |
Vienna | Staff unit |
Washington | Staff Unit |
Yangon (Rangoon) | Staff Unit |
Yerevan | Residence |
Yerevan | Office |
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