Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the profits of NHS Property Services and Community Health Partnerships are reinvested into capital expenditure on property maintenance.

All monies raised by NHS Property Services and Community Health Partnerships – which are 100% owned by the Department – are reinvested into the National Health Service. Both companies are consolidated into the Department’s Group accounts, which means they are part of and subject to the capital expenditure plan and limits which apply across the NHS.

Although NHS Property Services made a loss last financial year, the company invested £67 million through the capital investment programme to deliver improvements to the NHS property portfolio.

Community Health Partnerships (CHP) acts as the head tenant for all 305 of the buildings it is responsible for operating and maintaining for 25 years terms. CHP has a capital investment programme to rationalise and modernise its estate as required, but property maintenance is mostly ensured through its tenancy agreements under which the local NHS LIFT companies (in which CHP is a shareholder) are responsible for the full repair and maintenance costs across the building lifecycle for the full term. CHP made a profit before tax of £1.9 million in 2016/17.