Departmental Buildings

Mr. Philip Hammond
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what fees were paid to private contractors for the operation and maintenance of his Department’s buildings in the last 12 month period for which figures are available.

Angela Eagle
The Treasury building at 1 Horse Guards road operates and is maintained under a PFI contract. The annual unitary payment made under that contract is £14.037 million at March 1999 prices. The Treasury building at Rosebery Court in Norwich operates and is maintained under an OGCbuying.solutions framework contract. Payments made under that contract in the 12 months from September 2006 totalled some £814,000.