Land: Public Sector – Parliamentary Written Answer

Hilary Benn: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many of the sites owned by the public sector and identified by Government Departments in their local land disposal plans have been sold to date; what the sale value was in each such case; and to whom such sales were made.

Mr Prisk: To free up more surplus land for new housing, the Government is committed to releasing formerly used land, owned by central Government, capable of delivering up to 100,000 homes by April 2015. We have identified surplus land for 100,000 homes and, to date, we have already sold land to support the building of an estimated 33,000 new homes.