Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the receipts were for NHS Property Services from the sale of land in its possession in each of the last five financial years; and for what purposes those receipts were used.
Information relating to receipts to NHS Property Services from the sale of land in its possession in each year since it commenced operations (2013) can be found in the following table.
Year | Number of sites | Sales Receipt £ million |
2013-14 | 46 | 24.98 |
2014-15 | 118 | 57.73 |
2015-16 | 59 | 67.08 |
2016-17 | 72 | 53.51 |
Total | 295 | 203.30 |
All monies raised by the Company – which is 100% owned by the Department – are reinvested into capital expenditure and property maintenance in the National Health Service.