To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the buildings currently owned or rented by her 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 only property owned or rented by the Department is the wheelchair test centre, opened in Blackpool in August 1992. This property has not yet been valued. Similarly, the annual maintenance cost is not known. The land on which the centre was built is on a 125-year lease. The opportunity cost rent payable to Property Holdings is £42,510 per year, including VAT. All other properties occupied by this Department are on the common user estate and are owned or rented by the Property Holdings directorate of the Department of the Environment.