Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with NHS Property Service Ltd. on its disposal policies.

There have been no recent ministerial discussions with NHS Property Services Ltd (NHSPS) on its policies for the sale of sites surplus to healthcare requirements. Where the relevant local integrated care board (ICB) has declared a property surplus to National Health Service requirements, and it is vacated, NHSPS is required to sell the property for the benefit of the NHS and reduce under-utilisation of its buildings.