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Military Estate

Volume 203: debated on Friday 14 February 1992

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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) whether, as part of "Options for Change", a review has been carried out of the military estate in Scotland;(2) if he will conduct a review of the land presently owned or leased by his Department in Scotland for military training purposes with a view to disposing of any that is surplus to requirements.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on how many occasions and on what dates in the last five years for which information is available military training has taken place in Tentsmuir forest.

My noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces will write to the hon. Member.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether, when his Department leases land from the Forestry Commission in Scotland, a market value rent is paid.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish the terms of the agreement between his Department and the Forestry Commission for the use of Tentsmuir forest for military training purposes.

No formal agreement exists. Tentsmuir forest is used on an occasional basis and terms are negotiated for each period of use.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list by region the heritable property (a) owned or (b) leased by his Department in Scotland.

As at 1 April 1991, the total area, in hectares, of land and foreshore owned or leased by the Ministry of Defence in Scotland by region was:

Hectares
Highland5,210
Strathclyde5,200
Dumfries and Galloway4,209
Grampian2,207
Tayside1,454
Western Isles1,339
Fife1,328
Lothian1,160
Central80
Shetland Islands46

Hectares

Orkney Islands5
Borders

All areas of leased land included in the totals are subject to leases of three years or more; those of shorter duration are regarded as temporary and not recorded centrally. Totals exclude areas over which the Ministry of Defence has occasional training rights.