Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the maintenance of York Hospital buildings and estate.

The National Health Service publishes the annual Estates Returns Information Collection, which includes detailed information on the NHS estate. Individual NHS trusts are responsible for providing the data for the Estates Returns Information Collection and ensuring the accuracy of their returns.

In 2021/22, £0.6 million was invested in backlog maintenance at York Hospital by York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The following table shows the estimated cost to address levels of backlog maintenance reported by York & Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at York Hospital.