Speeches

Derek Twigg – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-04-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent from the public purse on the maintenance of NHS buildings in each year since 2010.

George Freeman

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table.

Data is collected annually in the Estates Return Information Collection from the National Health Service for maintenance service costs (prior to 2013-14 the data collected was “total building and engineering maintenance costs”). The data for 2010 onwards is provided for the NHS below:

£ million

2010-11

768.46

2011-12

751.40

2012-13

753.64

2013-14

756.06

2014-15

749.82

The data is provided as received from the NHS and has not been amended centrally.