Letter to the Clerk of the Committee from
the Parliamentary Relations and Devolution Department, Foreign
and Commonwealth Office, 16 March 2004
Thank you for your letter of 25 February repeating
your request for further information on the sales and purchases
of residential properties by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
We have looked carefully again at the issues
of commercial confidentiality and privacy. There are good reasons
for financial information on the most recent sales and purchases
(from 1 April 2002) remaining commercially sensitive. However,
we can now provide the requested information on historic purchases
and sales up to and including financial year 2001-02.
On that basis I attach a list of purchases and
sales including the financial data for the years which we can
now disclose. As my letter of 23 February indicated, for the vast
majority of cases, property sales were not matched by direct purchases.
I am also taking the opportunity to attach a
corrected version of the table attached to my letter of 23 February
which included a typographical error in relation to Guatemala
for which I apologise.
Matthew Hamlyn
Parliamentary Relations and Devolution
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
16 March 2004
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