To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer for how long HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will remain contracted to Mapeley in respect of the HMRC office at Crewe House, Crewe. (275955)

HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) office at Crewe House, Crewe was included in the Strategic Transfer of the Estate to the Private Sector (STEPS) outsourcing deal with Mapeley in April 2001. The STEPS contract is for a term of 20 years from 2001. However, there is flexibility within the contract for HMRC to fully or partially vacate properties prior to the contract expiry date in 2021. HMRC will remain contracted to Mapeley in respect of Crewe House until it vacates and the appropriate contractual vacation notice expires.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 11 May 2009, Official Report, column 541W, on HM Revenue and Customs in Crewe, how much he estimates will accrue in each category of the proposed savings of £230 million to arise from the vacation of two floors of the HM Revenue and Customs offices at Crewe House, Crewe. (276014)

HM Revenue and Customs is unable to disclose the specific estate savings for Crewe House, Crewe on grounds of commercial sensitivity.