Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 9 of the Government Response to the Naylor Review, published in January 2018, what funding will be made available for the training and development of the estates and facilities workforce; and whether that funding will come from existing budgets.

As part of its ongoing work, the NHS Estates and Facilities division of NHS Improvement leads on the training and development of the estates and facilities workforce, and will continue to do so. As part of the implementation of the workforce related elements of the Government Response to the Naylor Review, funding will be identified as required. National Health Service organisations remain responsible for the training and development of their own estates and facilities staff.