Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total extent of MOD Landholdings is; and how much land the Department has sold in each year between 2010 and 2017.
Mr Tobias Ellwood, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence People and Veterans: As at 1 April 2017 the Department owned or held rights to 433,800 hectares of land.
The amount of land the Department has sold in each financial year since 2010 is shown below:
Financial Year |
Area in Hectares |
|
|
2010-11 |
270 |
2011-12 |
1,260 |
2012-13 |
854 |
2013-14 |
513 |
2014-15 |
969 |
2015-16 |
157 |
2016-17 |
527 |
2017-18 (To Date) |
184 |
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