Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital sites and accompanying facilities have been placed in special measures as a result of poor building conditions in 2016; and if he will make a statement.

No trust has been placed into special measures in 2016 solely as a consequence of the condition of its estate.

Trusts are placed in special measures by NHS Improvement usually following a recommendation by the Chief Inspector of Hospitals. A decision to recommend quality special measures is based upon the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) comprehensive inspection report for the trust. The CQC inspects the estate of a provider under the ‘Safe’ key question and is one of many areas that the CQC monitors when conducting an inspection of a provider.