Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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 landholdings of the department are shown in the table below. This does not include land previously identified as surplus that has now been disposed. The information is correct at time of publication:
Size of the freehold of the Department for Education’s land holdings in England as at 5 February 2018
| All land (hectares) | Surplus land (hectares) | ||
| England | South-West | England | South-West |
Department | 10.69 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Agencies | 94.72 | 6.88 | 0.88 | 0.00 |
Non-departmental public body | 160.32 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Total | 265.74 | 6.88 | 0.88 | 0.00 |
Note: figures are rounded to two decimal places.
Details of the department's surplus land holdings are published on the register of surplus land and can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/epimstransparency.