Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how many acres of land held by (a) Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and (b) Humber NHS Foundation Trust will be sold as a result of the Naylor Review; and what the total proceeds of those sales is estimated to be.

‘NHS Property and Estates: why the estate matters for patients’ (the Naylor Review) is an independent report prepared for the Department and published on 31 March 2017. The report is available on the Department’s website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-property-and-estates-naylor-review.

The Government is giving careful consideration to the Review’s recommendations and will respond in due course.

The Review did not identify specific surplus National Health Service land and buildings nor recommend the sale of particular sites. It is for local NHS land owners to determine whether land and buildings are no longer needed for patient care and available for disposal, as part of the development of local plans by sustainability and transformation partnerships. We are engaging with the NHS to enable them to identify opportunities to support delivery of the Department’s existing aims to release land no longer required by the NHS sufficient for 26,000 homes and to generate up to £2 billion of proceeds for reinvestment in healthcare facilities and services.

NHS Digital undertakes an annual collection of data from individual NHS organisations on the land and property that they have deemed surplus to the delivery of healthcare. The latest data are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/nhs-surplus-land-financial-year-2016-to-2017-england

The following table shows the land area in hectares (ha) and estimated number of housing units for each plot declared as surplus by Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Humber NHS Foundation Trust as part of this data collection:

No estimate of proceeds from the disposal of these sites has been made. The number of housing units built on each site is subject to local planning permission.

The Department is committed to ensuring that the NHS has the capital resources it needs and capital receipts from the sale of surplus NHS land are a key part of this, supplementing the Department’s capital budget set by HM Treasury in the 2015 Spending Review. We recognised at the time of the Spending Review the potential need to transfer resources from this capital budget in order to help meet overall spending priorities; £1.2 billion was transferred from the Department’s capital budget to revenue in 2016-17. The Department is planning to reduce the level of transfer with the aim of eliminating it entirely by the end of the Spending Review period.