Departmental Empty Property

Sarah Teather
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough of 18 January 2010, Official Report, column 29W, on departmental buildings, what the (a) book value and (b) estimated annual rental value is of the vacant residential property owned by his Department.

Mr. Woolas
Since my Department is in the process of selling vacant residential property, no estimates have been made of potential rental value. I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 December 2009, Official Report, column 715W on the property's book value.