Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the estimated cost of awaiting maintenance projects at (a) all NHS Hospitals, (b) hospitals within the management of York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (c) Bridlington Hospital in East Yorkshire; what steps he plans to take to reduce the cost of these projects; and if he will make a statement.

The 2021/22 publication of the Estates Return Information Collection sets out the latest data on backlog maintenance costs across the National Health Service acute estate. Data covers four levels of risk maintenance (low, moderate, significant, and high). This shows the following: for all hospitals in England total backlog maintenance costs stand at £10.2 billion; the sites reported under York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have total backlog maintenance costs of £36,454,338; and Bridlington Hospital in East Yorkshire has total backlog maintenance costs of £5,994,670.

This Government is investing record sums to upgrade and modernise NHS buildings, including £4 billion this year and £12 billion over the next three years. This includes £39 million for York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as part of the ‘Hospital Upgrades’ programme.