Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding is available to help with building repairs for Grade II listed hospitals.

Currently, there are no national programmes providing funding specifically to Grade II listed hospitals and the Department does not keep records of which hospitals or buildings on hospital sites fit this criterion.

It is the legal responsibility of National Health Service organisations to maintain their estates and they are expected to use existing capital budgets and assets to maximum effect, prioritising and delivering locally to maintain and repair NHS buildings, including Grade II listed buildings, as and when appropriate.

In support of this, we are providing £4.2 billion for this financial year to upgrade, maintain, provide equipment to, and modernise NHS buildings in accordance with regional priorities.