To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what properties his Department (a) owned and (b) rented in each of the last five years. (139360)

Details of properties owned by the Ministry of Defence in the relevant period that are valued at over £1 million can be found in the national assets register, copies of which are available in the Library of the House or at

www.official-documents.gov.uk.

Information on properties owned that are below £1 million in value is not held centrally and will take time to collate. Details of properties rented by this Department are not held centrally and it will need to be determined whether the information can be provided without incurring disproportionate cost. I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent estimate has been made of the value of his Department's property portfolio. (139382)

The 2005-06 Departmental Resource Accounts show the net book value of land and buildings at 31 March 2006 as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost of leasing buildings and office space was for (a) his Department and (b) its agencies in each of the last five years. (139473)

The details requested are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.