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Departmental Buildings

Volume 226: debated on Tuesday 8 June 1993

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To ask the Attorney-General 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 Departments for which I am responsible—the legal secretariat to the Law Officers, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Treasury Solicitor's Department and the Serious Fraud Office—occupy accommodation in 148 buildings in England and Wales, all of which form part of the common user estate which is administered by Property Holdings. The Secretary of State for the Environment will include the rent and maintenance costs borne by Property Holdings of this accommodation in his answer to a similar question from the hon. Member. The internal maintenance costs for the accommodation, when borne by Departments, are included with expenditure for other works and the information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

TitleDate letDuration
Technical advice on aircraft emissions/air qualityApril 19911 year
Hazards from residual fuel oilsJune 19918 months
Clean up of rocky shorelinesOctober 19916 months
Oil thickness measurementNovember 19913 years
Bulk cargoes: Japanese penetration methodDecember 19913 months
Sampling of operational discharge at seaJanuary 19924 months
Drainage and settlement: Iron ore concentrate—Phase 3January 19924 months
Technical advice on aircraft emissions/air qualityApril 19921 year
Review of bioremediation techniquesApril 19929 months
Use of demulsifiersJune 19923 years
Fate of chemicals feasibility studyJune 19926 months
Review of refined productsJune 199220 months
Dispersion—natural and chemically enhancedJuly 19926 months
Feasibility study to forecast fuel consumption and exhaust emissionsSeptember 19928 months
Eurospill (oil spill model) ExtensionSeptember 19929 months
Vapour cloud dispersionOctober 19926 months
Review of sorbentsOctober 19921 year
Drainage and settlement: Iron ore concentrate—Phase 4October 19928 months
Emission tests on catalyst carsNovember 19922 months
In-situ burning of oilNovember 19923 months
Inservice performance of oily water separators and bilge monitorsNovember 19923 months
Modelling of sinking chemicalsFebruary 19934 months
Assessment of emission abatement (cold conditions)March 19932 years
The Department's plans for future research are set out in our research newsletter for 1993–94, copies of which are in the Library of the House.