Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an estimate of the number of properties that form part of the NHS estate that are not used for clinical purposes.

The information requested is not collected centrally. Data is collected annually in the Estates Return Information Collection from the National Health Service on the occupied floor area that is classified as Clinical and Non-clinical by NHS trusts and is publicly available at:

http://hefs.hscic.gov.uk/ERIC.asp

NHS trusts decide locally how to provide their Clinical and Non-clinical services to make best use of their properties. This includes holding detailed information on the usage of their estate to allow such decisions to be made effectively.