Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will discuss the potential development of key worker housing for NHS staff at Bootham Park hospital with NHS Property Services.

The current assessment of NHS Property Services (NHSPS) is that the costs of upgrading this property for any form of staff residential or clinical use would be extremely significant. NHSPS is therefore focussed on the sale of the property with the associated planning permission to realise a receipt which can be reinvested in the National Health Service estate, to an organisation that is able to fund the level of investment required for this heritage asset going forwards.