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Departmental Buildings

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what properties (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies have sold in each of the last five years; and how many have been sold for housing developments. (267559)

The following table gives details of the number of properties sold by the Northern Ireland Office and its agencies in each of the last five years:

Number of properties sold

Financial year

Northern Ireland Office

Agencies

2007-08

9

0

2006-07

7

0

2005-06

22

0

2004-05

14

0

2003-04

1

0

Total

53

0

The Department holds no records that show that any of these properties have been sold for housing developments.

The Northern Ireland Office’s executive non-departmental bodies operate independently of Government. I would encourage the hon. Member to write to the respective chief executives when requesting details of operational matters. Details of the Northern Ireland Office’s non-departmental public bodies can be found in the Northern Ireland Office 2008 Departmental Report:

http://www.nio.gov.uk/northern_ireland_office_departmental_report_2008.pdf