Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to encourage health authorities to reclaim and re-use disability adaptations and equipment that are no longer required by clients.

National Health Service trusts have a responsibility for making the best use of all resources and items where they are safely and legally reusable and returnable. Policy on the return of equipment is a matter for each trust and should be clear in each trust’s Sustainable Development Management Plan.