FOI T294/24 - Police Estates
Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Estates and Finance Departments of Northumbria Police. We can confirm that the information you have requested is held in part by Northumbria Police.
We are able to disclose the located information to you as follows.
You asked:
For each of the last ten calendar years (January 1st 2014 - 31st December 2023):
1. How many police buildings (and or land) have been sold? Please list them (and advise what they were previously used for, for example if they were a police station or land used for car storage) and advise how much they were sold for. If land only, please advise the size.
Please see the attached pdf document which contains the data in order to satisfy this part of your request.
FOI T294-24 - Police Estate - p.pdf
2. What buildings or land owned by the Force are currently up for sale? Please provide a list.
No information held as we do not have any property or land marketed at present.
3. Broadly, of the funds raised, what has this money been used for?
All capital receipts from the sale of property by the PCC for Northumbria since 1 January 2014, has either been used to finance the capital programme or, are held in reserves to fund the capital programme over 2023/24 to 2025/26.
As the information in relation to the value of capital receipts used each year to fund the capital programme can be found in the Capital Budget Outturn report for each year, is accessible by other means we have not provided you with a copy of the information and will rely on Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You should therefore consider this a refusal for this part your request.
We have provided an explanation to this exemption below.
Section 21 (1) - Information accessible by other means
Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant is exempt information.
A response to this part is published as a matter of course and can be found on the Police and Crime Commissioners website under Key Decisions for each year. It is therefore freely available for all to view and in order to aid and assist you I have provide the link below: