Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has been made of the effect of the establishment of wholly owned companies set up by foundation trusts to undertake facilities management on the implementation of the recommendations of Sir Robert Naylor's review of the NHS estate.

NHS Property and Estates: why the estate matters for patients (the Naylor Review) is an independent report prepared for the Department, published on 31 March 2017. The report is available on the Department’s website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-property-and-estates-naylor-review.

The Government is giving careful consideration to the Review’s recommendations, including options for the establishment of a new NHS Property Board, and will respond in due course.

The Department does not collect information centrally on the functions undertaken by subsidiaries established by National Health Service trusts or foundation trusts. It is for individual NHS trusts and foundation trusts to determine how best to manage their estates and facilities locally.