To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what properties his (a) Department and (b) Department's (i) executive and (ii) non-departmental public bodies have sold in each of the last five years; and how many of these have been sold for housing development. (266494)

The following properties have been sold in the last five years:

(a) In 2004 the Department for Children, Schools and Families sold Letchworth Skillcentre in Hertfordshire and in 2008 it sold Middlesbrough Skillcentre Annex and Wales Bar in Rotherham. None of these sales was for housing development.

(b) The Department has no agencies.

(c) In 2006 The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) sold a property in Preston, Lancashire to a developer, although the property did not have a residential planning permission.

In 2004 the Children and Families Courts Advisory Service (CAFCASS) sold 5 Upper Park Road, Bromley, Kent.

In 2005 it sold 65 Alma Road, Windsor, Berkshire.

In 2006 it sold Darwen Health Centre, Blackburn, Lancashire and 90 Finkle Street, Cottingham, Yorkshire.

In 2007 it sold a property in Dudley in the West Midlands.

None of these sales were for housing development.