NHS: Buildings
(asked on 6th February 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of properties owned by NHS Property Services are (a) freehold and (b) leasehold.
Information on freehold and leasehold properties owned by NHS Property Services (NHSPS) is set out in the following table.
Tenure | Number of Properties | % of total | Notes |
Freehold | 1,810 | 57.57% | This figure includes long leasehold properties |
Leasehold | 1,256 | 39.95% | This figure includes periodic tenancies |
Other formal tenure arrangements | 51 | 1.62% | Licences, tenancies at will, memorandum of occupation, mixed tenure |
Other | 27 | 0.86% | Tenure types unconfirmed or no formal arrangement |
Total properties in NHSPS estate | 3,144 | 100.00% |
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It has been assumed that ‘property’ refers to a physical building or structure, or single parcel of land rather than a wider site or single legal holding.