To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his estimate of the annual cost to his Department and his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies of their empty and under-utilised properties for (a) 1979–80, (b) 1989–90, (c) 1991–92, (d) 1993–094, (e) 1994–95, (f) 1995–96 and (g) 1996–97. [11405]

Welsh Office accommodation is part of the common user estate held in the name of the Secretary of State for the Environment and managed by Property Holdings, a directorate of DOE. Surplus accommodation and space on the common user estate are the responsibility of Property Holdings. Information for the common user estate will be provided by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment in his reply.Information is not held centrally for agencies and NDPBs which are not housed on the common user estate.