Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current maintenance backlog is at a) Bedford Hospital and b) Luton & Dunstable Hospital.

National Health Service trusts are legally responsible for managing and maintaining their estates using their operational capital allocations, and as part of this, they regularly assess the physical condition of their estate.

The NHS England Estates Related Information Collection (ERIC) survey collects data from trusts on the condition of their estate annually, including backlog maintenance and the projected cost of bringing all the buildings on each NHS site into acceptable condition. The latest data, for 202/25, including from trusts in the East of England, is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/estates-returns-information-collection/summary-page-and-dataset-for-eric-2024-25

Repairing and rebuilding our NHS estate is a vital part of our ambition to create an NHS that is fit for the future through our 10-Year Health Plan. The Government’s 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy set out 10 year maintenance budgets for the public estate, confirming £6 billion per year for maintenance and repair of the NHS estate up to 2034/35.