Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much land (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies owns in (i) England and (ii) the South West; and how much of that land has been identified as being surplus to requirements.

The current Government Estate Strategy sets out the Government's objective to deliver an effective approach to estates management. Defra follows the aims of that strategy.

The current landholdings of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are shown in the table below. This does not include land previously identified as surplus that has now been disposed of. The information is correct at time of publication.

Of the total land the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs holds in England, 280.29 hectares is currently declared as surplus. These figures include three non-departmental public bodies – Environment Agency, Natural England National Nature Reserve estate and Kew Gardens. Land and buildings used by Defra’s Agencies are held by Defra and are reported under the Defra return.