NHS: Buildings
(asked on 21st February 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2017 to Question 63167, what proportion of the 217 vacant properties are (a) freehold, (b) leasehold, (c) other formal tenure agreements and (d) other.
The tenure of the 217 vacant properties held by NHS Property Services is as follows:
Tenure | Number of Properties | Proportion (%) |
Freehold and long leasehold | 146 | 67 |
Leasehold | 69 | 32 |
Other formal tenure arrangements | 1 | 0.5 |
Other | 1 | 0.5 |
The 217 properties constitute 6.9% of the total number in the NHS Property Services portfolio and in calculating 217 as the number of vacant properties, the following assumptions were made:
- ‘Property’ refers to a physical building or structure rather than a site or legal holding (i.e. some facilities sit on several land-holdings); and
- Vacant Properties are defined as those properties where at least 90% of the Net Internal Area is classed as vacant.