Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate the NHS has made of the cost of high risk repairs in each month from January 2015; and if he will make a statement.

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.