Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made on the disposal of his Department's surplus land; and if he will make a statement.

The Department is fully committed to supporting the Government’s programme to release surplus land for 100,000 homes by the end of March 2015. The Department has made a significant contribution to this initiative having sold land to support for more 3,000 homes. The Department’s ‘family’ as a whole, which includes NHS Property Services and the wider National Health Service, has sold land with capacity for more than 11,250 homes up to the end of September 2014.