NHS: Buildings

(asked on 6th February 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
(Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many properties held by NHS Property Services are vacant.

Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 9th February 2017

The number and proportion of NHS Property Services’ properties that are classified as vacant is shown in the following table. The Company classifies buildings as vacant when 90% or more of the building’s area is unused.

Category

Number of Properties

% of Total

Vacant (90% or Greater)

217

6.90%

Non-vacant (Less than 90%)

2,927

93.10%

Total

3,144

100.00%

For this response the following assumptions have been made:

- ‘Property’ refers to a physical building or structure rather than a site or legal holding;

- Only those buildings which have been verified as live interests through recent validation exercise have been included; and

- Properties such as car parks or land parcels which have no internal area and are not expected to have tenants will be classed as non-vacant.

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