asked Her Majesty's Government:
What is their estimate of the total value of disposals of those assets included in the National Asset Register since it was last published in January 2007, broken down between asset categories and departments. [HL6036]
The National Asset Register listed assets owned at the end of March 2005. The table below therefore shows the estimated value of asset disposals (in £m) between April 2005 and March 2008 consistent with the most recently published aggregate figures (published in Tables 2.3 and 5.7 of Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2008). Data for 2005-06 and 2006-07 are outturn figures; data for 2007-08 are estimates made at the time of the 2008 Budget. These figures include all asset disposals by central government departments, NDPBs and public corporations that were reported as part of departments' capital budgets, and are split between “land and buildings” and “other”.
Departmental Group Land and buildings Other1 Total Children, Schools and Families 1 0 1 Health 2,6622 0 2,662 Transport 45 0 45 Innovation, Universities and Skills 13 3 16 Communities and Local Government 1,048 2 1,050 Home Office 18 2 20 Justice 26 3 29 Law Officers' Departments 28 6 34 Defence 1,948 42 1,990 Foreign and Commonwealth Office 20 73 93 International Development 0 0 0 Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 75 166 241 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 37 9 46 Culture, Media and Sport 3 7 11 Work and Pensions 0 68 68 Scotland 134 13 147 Wales 111 37 148 Northern Ireland Executive 130 88 218 Northern Ireland Office 74 11 85 Chancellor's Departments 16 5 20 Cabinet Office 0 13 13 Independent Bodies 0 3 3 Total 6,390 551 6,941
1. “Other” includes tangible and intangible fixed asset disposals that are not “land and buildings”.
2. The Health “land and buildings” figure contains a small amount of “other” disposals that cannot currently be identified separately in data collected centrally.