To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many (a) empty and (b) occupied residential properties his Department owns; and what the (i) potential annual rental and (ii) total book value is of those (A) empty and (B) occupied residential properties. (313792)

The Department for International Development (DFID) owns eight residential properties, all of which are occupied.

DFID does not keep information on potential annual rental of its properties. To obtain this information would incur disproportionate costs.

The Total Book Value of occupied residential properties when our Resource Accounts were last published on 31 March 2009 was £9.2 million.