HC Deb 26 November 1987 vol 123 cc319-21W
Mr. Ralph Howell

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North, on 13 November, if in the light of the fact that his Department has already provided information on the acreage of land held in the Norwich district health authority area, he will list in league order, with the highest at the top, the acreage of land held in those district health authority areas within the National Health Service in England about which he has readily available information centrally; and if he will also give the total.

Mrs. Currie

The figures provided on 13 November for the major property by the Norwich health authority, were obtained from a special scrutiny of that authority's land terriers. Smaller sites were, as now, excluded. A table follows which includes the available information from authorities who have returned aggregated information for their major sites in the format requested. It is estimated that the total site area is 51,000 acres.

District Acres
Leicestershire 1117
Northumberland 805
Norwich 625
Tunbridge Wells 612
North Staffordshire 588
East Surrey 578
Huddersfield 546
North East Essex 531
West Berkshire 519
South Derbyshire 519
Dartford and Gravesham 519
Barking and Havering 509
Portsmouth 482
Newcastle 479
Leeds West 450
Sheffield 447
Southampton 445
Oxfordshire 445

District Acres
Chichester 440
Wakefield 432
Central Nottinghamshire 410
Basingstoke 398
York 395
Walsall 395
Waltham Forest 390
East Suffolk 381
Bromsgrove and Redditch 388
Croydon 378
East Yorkshire 366
Eastbourne 356
North Warwickshire 343
South East Staffordshire 338
Leeds East 336
South Birmingham 334
Northampton 334
Bath 334
South Tees 329
Canterbury and Thanet 326
Kidderminster and District 316
Hull 299
North Lincolnshire 294
Mid Downs 289
Nottingham 284
Mid Surrey 284
Barnet 277
East Berkshire 267
East Cumbria 254
Sunderland 252
Southend 252
Bexley 250
West Surrey and North East Hants 247
Bradford 247
North West Surrey 242
South West Durham 240
South Warwickshire 237
Merton and Sutton 237
Gateshead 237
Brent 237
Worcester and district 232
Hillingdon 232
Cambridge 230
West Dorset 215
Basildon and Thurrock 212
Riverside 208
Redbridge 208
Doncaster 205
Swindon 200
North Beds 200
Aylesbury 200
East Dorset 198
Durham 198
Dudley 198
Mid Essex 195
Airdale 195
North Derbyshire 193
Wandsworth 185
South West Herts 183
Solihull 180
Darlington 178
Bromley 178
South West Surrey 173
Maidstone 173
Paddington 168
Bloomsbury 168
North West Herts 166
Isle of Wight 166
West Cumbria 163
South Beds 163
Brighton 163
Rotherham 161
Mid Staffs 161
Hounslow 153
West Essex 148
Hampstead 148
North Herts 143

District Acres
Coventry 143
Harrow 141
Enfield 141
Central Birmingham 141
Wolverhampton 138
Kingston and Esher 133
Medway 131
Lewisham and North Southwark 131
Salisbury 128
West Suffolk 126
Winchester 121
Peterborough 119
Greenwich 116
West Birmingham 106
Harrogate 106
Sandwell 104
Kettering 104
Great Yarmouth 104
South East Kent 99
Herefordshire 99
South Cumbria 91
North Birmingham 89
Haringey 84
West Norfolk 82
Richmond, Twickenham and
Roehampton 82
North Tyneside 79
East Herts 77
Worthing 74
Calderdale 74
Barnsley 74
North West Durham 72
Newham 72
Milton Keynes 72
Ealing 72
Huntingdon 69
Pontefract 67
West Lambeth 64
Scunthorpe 64
Hastings 64
Dewsbury 64
North Tees 62
South Tyneside 57
Scarborough 57
City and Hackney 52
Wycombe 47
Hartlepool 44
Northallerton 42
Tower Hamlets 37
Islington 37
Rugby 25