I am pleased to announce todaythe publication of the Report on the Review of Property Asset Management and ourapproach to the relocation of public bodies.The main findings of the AssetManagement Review are:The Scottish Government occupies709 buildings totalling, 723,054m2 and there is a wide variety of managementarrangements of these assets;Two-thirds of organisations surveyeddo not have an asset management plan or strategy in place, andThere is no single IT asset datasystem that holds key data about the whole estate.Based on these findings, themain recommendations are to:Ensure, by end April 2008, thatall parts of Scottish Government have in place an Asset Management Plan.Ensure that, in future, we willmaintain a single comprehensive database of property information.Put in place a central team thatwill maintain a strategic overview of the whole estate, perform a challenge functionand identify the best...