Speeches

Tom Tugendhat – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Tugendhat on 2016-05-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his Department’s properties and in which locations are classified as void.

Penny Mordaunt

The number and locations of properties classified as void as of 24 May 2016 are shown in the table below:

County

Voids

ABERDEENSHIRE

5

ANGUS

20

ARGYLL AND BUTE

237

AVON

42

AYRSHIRE

21

BEDFORDSHIRE

194

BERKS

276

BUCKS

183

CAITHNESS

1

CAMBS

373

CHESHIRE

50

CLWYD

1

CORNWALL

46

*COUNTY ANTRIM

647

*COUNTY DOWN

397

COUNTY DURHAM

16

CUMBRIA

14

DEVON

202

DORSET

151

DUMBARTON

4

DUMFRIES

3

DURHAM

8

DYFED

45

EAST SUSSEX

2

EAST YORKSHIRE

4

EDINBURGH

169

ESSEX

155

FIFE

221

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

88

GWENT

45

GWYNEDD

53

**HANTS

1074

HEREFORDSHIRE

8

HERTS

176

INVERNESS-SHIRE

58

ISLE OF BENBECULA

3

KENT

483

LANCASHIRE

86

LEICESTERSHIRE

162

LINCOLNSHIRE

294

LONDON

86

MIDDLESEX

163

MIDLOTHIAN

43

MORAY

121

NORFOLK

209

NORTH LANARKSHIRE

4

NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE

3

NORTH YORKS

522

NORTHUMBERLAND

67

NOTTINGHAM

58

ORKNEY ISLANDS

1

OXON

361

OXON

1

PEMBROKE

4

PERTH

3

POWYS

64

RENFREWSHIRE

26

ROSS AND CROMARTY

1

SHETLAND ISLANDS

1

SHROPSHIRE

223

SOMERSET

90

SOUTH GLAMORGAN

111

SOUTH YORKS

2

ST ANDREWS

3

STAFFORDSHIRE

83

STIRLING

1

SUFFOLK

281

SURREY

222

SWINDON, WILTS

19

TYNE AND WEAR

12

WARWICKSHIRE

69

WEST MIDLANDS

9

WEST SUSSEX

14

WEST YORKS

2

***WILTS

1294

YORKSHIRE

29

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Total Voids

10219

Of these properties 4623 were vacant for more than 12 months.

*The majority of void properties in Northern Ireland are awaiting demolition while 59 have been gifted to the NI Executive.

**Void properties in Hants have been retained due to short term Ministry of Defence requirements and plans have been made to release many of these for disposal.

***In the Wiltshire region a number of properties remain void to accommodate Army personnel returning to the area from Germany as a result of the Army Basing Programme.