Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Buildings
(asked on 6th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the total floor area of her departmental estate was in each year from 2010-11 to 2020-21.
Central estate data for the former Foreign Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development United Kingdom portfolios was published in the annual State of the Estate reports which are published by the Cabinet Office and can be found on www.gov.uk. For example, the 2020-21 report can be found here; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-of-the-estate-in-2020-2021
The data for the period requested has been extracted and is summarised in the table below;
| Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office* (NIA, m²) | Foreign & Commonwealth Office* (NIA, m²) | Department for International Development (NIA, m²) | Total (NIA, m²) |
2020-21 | 35,078 |
|
| 35,078 |
2019-20 |
| 75,374 | 16,990 | 92,364 |
2018-19 |
| 75,374 | 16,990 | 92,364 |
2017-18 |
| 75,186 | 19,358 | 94,544 |
2016-17 |
| 75,430 | 19,358 | 94,788 |
2015-16 |
| 78,386 | 19,358 | 97,744 |
2014-15 |
| 96,702 | 19,358 | 116,060 |
2013-14 |
| 96,503 | 48,558 | 145,061 |
2013 |
| 96,356 | 48,558 | 144,914 |
2012 |
| 109,473 | 63,832 | 173,305 |
2011 |
| 109,473 | 55,154 | 164,627 |
*Excluding British Council |
This data includes Arms Length Bodies, but excludes the British Council estate and the whole of the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office's overseas estate.
In September 2020 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development were merged into a new, single Department; Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. In March 2021 the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office's Core Central Office premises were onboarded to the Government Property Agency as at 31 March 2021 (King Charles Street, 22 Whitehall and Abercrombie House).
The 2020-21 State of the Estate report published in December 2021 was the first time that Foreign Commonwealth Development Office reported on its combined United Kingdom portfolio, less the onboarded premises (now held and reported on by the Government Property Agency), British Council and leased offices given up in Milton Keynes.