Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2017 to Question 63652, on NHS Property Services Communities Health Partnerships, whether a business case was prepared to support the plans to establish a new NHS property organisation.

The Department is developing plans to establish a new National Health Service property organisation, in response to early recommendations made by Sir Robert Naylor’s ongoing review of the NHS estate. We are committed to ensuring that the new organisation fully supports and reflects the needs and priorities of the NHS.

Further details on the proposed new organisation are currently being developed, and these details will be set out in a business case to Department of Health Ministers in due course.