To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the financial liability the public purse will bear for the cost of City Hall at the end of the 25 year lease signed by the then Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions. (176737)

The Government have not made any estimate of the financial liability the public purse will have for the cost of City Hall at the end of the 25 year lease. Responsibility for the City Hall lease was transferred from the Secretary of State to the Greater London Authority in 2004.