Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the backlog in maintenance issues within the NHS on the elective recovery plan.

No recent assessment has been made. We have provided £4 billion in 2022/23 and £12 billion over the next three years for the modernisation of National Health Service buildings.

We have allocated more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund already made available in 2021/2022 to increase elective activity. The target to eliminate waiting times of two years or more for elective procedures was met in July 2022 and we aim to eliminate waiting time of eighteen months or more by April 2023. We are also investing an additional £3.3 billion in 2023/24 and 2024/25 to support the NHS in England and improve emergency, elective and primary care performance to pre-pandemic levels.