Alison Seabeck – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison Seabeck on 2014-03-31.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which sites used by the land-focused business of the Defence Support Group will be (a) sold, (b) leased to the buyer and (c) closed with a view to being put on the open market for development.

Mr Philip Dunne

Other than the proposed closure of the site at Ashchurch for subsequent sale for development, it is not the intention of the Ministry of Defence to sell any of the sites used by the Defence Support Group (DSG) or to close any with a view to putting them on the market. The following facilities which the DSG occupy exclusively will be leased to the new company:

Andover

Bicester

Bovington (main DSG facility)

Lulworth

Catterick

Colchester

Donnington

Sennybridge

Stirling

Warminster (main DSG facility)

The DSG will be granted a licence to occupy facilities at the following locations:

Abingdon Aldershot Sites Ashchurch (pending closure) Bovington (In-Barracks Support) Brawdy Chivenor Edinburgh Kinnegar Longmoor Portsmouth St Athan Stirling (Bldg 135)

Stranraer

Tidworth

Waddington

Warminster (In-Barracks Support)

Wattisham

Woodbridge

Woolwich

Wyton