Departments: Property

Grant Shapps
To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice how much was raised from the sale of departmental property in each of the last five years.

Ms Harman
Information on how much the Department has raised from the sale of departmental property is shown in the following table.

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|     |Sale proceeds|
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|06-07|34.66        |
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|05-06|25.25        |
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|04-05|25.96        |
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|03-04|91.18        |
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|02-03|10.19        |
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Grant Shapps
To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice what recent estimate has been made of the value of the Department's property portfolio.

Ms Harman
The total property portfolio was valued at 31 March 2007 to be £9,728.547 million.