Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse is of hospital repairs over the last 12 months.

The total cost of hospital repairs in England is collected by NHS England’s Estates Returns Information Collection (ERIC) for each financial year.

The latest ERIC data, for the 2023/24 financial year, showed that capital investment reported by National Health Service trusts for changing and improving existing buildings totalled £1,718,500,000, whilst capital investment for maintaining existing buildings totalled £738,600,000. The published version of this dataset 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-2023-24.

Capital investment for repairing NHS hospitals occurs throughout the financial year based on engagement with individual NHS organisations. In this context, cost data for months that fall during the 2024/2025 financial year is not finalised as the financial year is not yet complete, making this the most recent 12 months of data available.