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 the most recently available (a) annual and (b) associated costs to the public purse are of those NHS Property Services' properties that are currently classified as (i) vacant and (ii) non-vacant.

The figure given in the Answer to Question 64600 on 22 February gave a budgeted figure for maintenance and associated costs for vacant properties totalling £9.4 million. The figure for non-Vacant properties is £742.3 million in 2016/17. Both are based on NHS Property Services’ 2016/17 budget and billing data and remain the most recently available costings.

Buildings are classified as vacant when 90% or more of the building’s area is unused.