Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital sites across England have backlog maintenance costs of £10 million or more; and how many of those hospital sites are assessed as high risk on that account.

Information on National Health Service sites across England that have reported backlog maintenance costs is collected annually from the NHS through the Estates Return Information Collection system and is published at:

http://hefs.hscic.gov.uk/

This information is not amended centrally. Therefore, the NHS organisations that have provided the data are responsible for its completeness and accuracy.

NHS organisations locally are responsible for the safety and quality of their estate as well as the management of their own backlog maintenance, including high-risk repairs. They decide on the investment needed to maintain their estate. We will invest more than £20 billion on capital over the next five years including for maintenance of estate, new buildings and equipment, to ensure NHS facilities meet the highest possible standards.