To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the change in the annual cost to his Department of maintaining the empty public buildings owned by his Department as a result of the April 2008 changes to empty property rate relief. (267126)

The estimate of the change in the annual cost to the Ministry of Justice as a result of the April 2008 changes to the empty property rate is £804,081. The cost is made up as follows: