Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the office space owned or leased by her Department is not in regular use; what the total (a) rental and (b) retail value is of all such office space; and if she will place in the Library a copy of her most recent departmental real estate valuation.

The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has no office space which is not in regular use.

All of DECC’s property is leased aside from 55 Whitehall. This is a Crown Estate building. The Department cannot release real estate valuation as this is considered to be commercially sensitive.