ESN in Parliament

Last week the MP for Edinburgh North and Leith, Deidre Brock submitted five parliamentary questions (PQs) to the Home Office on the ESN Extended Area Service (EAS) site at at Ystradffin Farm, Rhandirmwyn, Llandovery SA20 OPG;

  • To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2019 to Question 1909 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Ystradffin Farm, when negotiations on that lease were opened by his Department.
  • To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2019 to Question 1909 on Ystradffin Farm, what the annual leasing costs are of that site.
  • To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2019 to Question 1909 on Ystradffin Farm, what other properties were considered before that lease was entered into.
  • To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2019 to Question 2741 on Ystradffin Farm, what topographical considerations led to that location being chosen for a lattice mast.
  • To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2019 to Question 2741 on Ystradffin Farm, what tendering process was undertaken for that project.

As all five questions were from the same MP and on the same issue they were grouped together and one response was given by Kit Malthouse, the Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service:

Initial discussions, followed by negotiations, for the ESN site at Ystradffin started in February 2018. The proposed annual leasing costs for the site are commercially sensitive and cannot be disclosed.

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