Ordnance Survey office space

Under the current terms of the Freedom of Information Act please can you provide me with answers to the following questions. For each building in your organisation which is used primarily as office space, please supply the following:

1) Postcode

2) Net Internal Area (NIA) of the building sq m.

3) Staff: a) Approximate total number (FTE) of office based staff for the building.
b) Optional: If you also have available the total headcount of office based staff for the building, please indicate this.

4) Tenure. Please indicate if the property is either: a) Owned by your organisation (freehold or leasehold) b) Managed under a PFI agreement c) Rented or leased.

5) For each of the buildings you have listed that is not currently owned by your organisation (i.e. you answered b) or c) to Q4), please supply the following, if available: a) The approximate annual rental cost and b) Any known lease break dates.

6) For all buildings you have listed, please supply the annual operational costs for the latest year available, excluding rent.

We expect that this will normally include rates, net service charge, maintenance, cleaning, utilities, security etc. but please supply the headline figure that you usually use, specifying what is included / excluded only if necessary.

Where it is not possible to break this down by individual building, please provide a total figure for your estate.

Thank you for your e-mail dated 14^th July 2011. We are pleased to attached to this e-mail, the completed table - supplied by you with your request.

Please note your enquiry has been processed according to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. As all the requested information has been provided, we have determined that in all the circumstances of this case the Public interest consideration (section 17 FOIA) is not applicable in this instance.

If you are unhappy with our response, you may raise an appeal to our Appeals Officer at:

FOI Appeals Officer
Customer Service Centre
Ordnance Survey
Adanac Drive
SOUTHAMPTON
SO16 0AS

Please include the reference number below. The Appeals Officer will ensure that the process has been followed correctly, questioning any decisions taken regarding the original response and recommending disclosure of additional information if appropriate.

Thank you for your enquiry.

Reference number: FOI11197/July 2011