To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the buildings currently owned or rented by his Department, together with (a) the estimated value, (b) the annual rent and (c) the annual maintenance cost of each building in the current financial year.
The Department's staff occupy 1,353 properties throughout the United Kingdom with an annual rent of £29 million and annual maintenance cost of £9·3 million. The estimated value of the properties is not known.
The Department also holds properties in connection with the roads programme. This stock constantly changes, depending with the progress of individual road schemes. The current holding is some 3,500 properties. An estimate of the current value is not available. The most recent available figures for 1991–92, on a portfolio of some 2,900 properties, include a rent income of some £3·95 million, net of management fees and repair and maintenance costs, and a maintenance expenditure of some £1·9 million.
Details of each building could be provided only at disproportionate cost.