HC Deb 12 July 1991 vol 194 cc500-4W
Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will quantify the total cost of the backlog of maintenance on the national health service estate for each district health authority.

Mr. Dorrell

On 31 March 1990 (the latest information available) the cost of bringing the NHS estate to an overall condition which exhibited only minor deterioration was estimated to be £1.8 billion. The information by health authority is shown in the tables and includes property due to be replaced within three years, property not used for patient care, property awaiting planned preventive maintenance and property awaiting disposal. These four types of property together represent about 30 per cent. of the total NHS estate. In 1982 a report "Underused and Surplus Property in the NHS" saidIt is clear that the backlog has accumulated over very many years and estimated that the cost of the work required to bring property in England up to an acceptable standard would be of the order of £2.9 billion, at 1990 prices.

Between 1979–80 and 1990–91 capital spending in the NHS rose by 62 per cent. in real terms. About 77 per cent. of the resources allocated to NHS capital are invested in the estate and in the current year over 400 building projects each costing over £1 million are at various stages of planning, design and construction. The capital building programme for 1991–92 exceeds £1 billion.

District health authority Cost to B2(£ thousands)
NORTHERN REGION 86,189
Hartlepool 5,650
North Tees 13,656
South Tees 5,296
East Cumbria 1,127
South Cumbria 8,622
West Cumbria 12,293
Darlington 4,530
Durham 7,272
North West Durham 926
South West Durham 5,260
Northumberland 14,104
Gateshead 1
Newcastle 1
North Tyneside 1,014
South Tyneside 2,840
Sunderland 3,599
YORKSHIRE REGION 110,446
Hull 5,609
East Yorkshire 6,200
Grimsby 3,531
Scunthorpe 4,809
Northallerton 1,525
York 2,497
Scarborough 1,442
Harrogate 400
Bradford 16,216
Airdale 7,089
Calderdale 1
Huddersfield 1,051
Dewsbury 412
West Leeds 18,240
East Leeds 30,525
Wakefield 8,306
Pontefract 2,595
TRENT REGION 98,648
Regionally managed schemes 1
North Derbyshire 6,154
South Derbyshire 5,841
Leicester 20,197
North Lincolnshire 2,937
South Lincolnshire 1
Bassetlaw 4,373
Central Nottingham 17,353
Nottingham 20,038
Barnsley 1,200
Doncaster 5,182
Rotherham 1,573
Sheffield 13,801
EAST ANGLIA REGION 43,151
Cambridge 12,912
Peterborough 1
West Suffolk 3,043
East Suffolk 11,770
Norwich 11,572
Great Yarmouth and Waveney 1
West Norfolk and Wishech 2,617
Huntingdon 1,237
NORTH WEST THAMES REGION 67,408
North Bedfordshire 4,967
South Bedfordshire 9,579
North Hertfordshire 1
East Hertfordshire 1
North West Hertfordshire 1
South West Hertfordshire 3,488
Barnet 1

District health authority Cost to B2(£ thousands)
Harrow 1
Hillingdon 1
Hounslow and Spelthorne 1
Ealing 1
Riverside 34,515
Parkside 14,859
North East Thames Region 212,427
Basildon and Thurrock 2,350
Mid Essex 13,781
North East Essex 25,514
West Essex 3,700
Southend 350
Barking, Havering and Brentwood 31,458
Hampstead 21,895
Bloomsbury 1
Islington 7,548
City and Hackney 39,675
Newham 1
Tower Hamlets 16,500
Enfield 5,840
Haringey 7,144
Redbridge 17,441
Waltham Forest 19,231
South Eastern Thames Region 122,805
Brighton 29,374
Eastbourne 3,700
Hastings 6,130
South East Kent 949
Canterbury & Thanet 26,224
Dartford and Gravesham 13,923
Maidstone 3,136
Medway 1
Tunbridge Wells 10,240
Bexley 12,832
Greenwich 5,426
Bromley 1
West Lambeth 10,872
Camberwell 1
Lewisham & North Southwark 1
South West Thames Region 164,932
North West Surrey 12,142
West Surrey and North East Hants 132
South West Surrey 6,965
Mid Surrey 11,411
East Surrey 7,575
Chichester 10,506
Mid Downs 13,526
Worthing 6,682
Croydon 6,592
Kingston & Esher 10,482
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 3,124
Wandsworth 66,421
Merton & Sutton 9,374
Wessex Region 62,060
East Dorset
West Dorset 1
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 7,843
Southampton and South West Hampshire 1
Winchester 11,035
Basingstoke and North Hampshire 6,132
Salisbury 1
Swindon 3,611
Bath 30,967
Isle of Wight 2,472
Oxford Region 93,010
East Berkshire 14,962
West Berkshire 1,000
Aylesbury Vale 13,795
Wycombe 9,244
Milton Keynes 1,082
Kettering 11,786
Northampton 4,829

District health authority Cost to B2(£ thousands)
Oxfordshire 36,312
SOUTH WESTERN REGION 100,226
Bristol and Weston 10,741
Frenchay 24,119
Southmead 5,819
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 8,527
Exeter 4,138
North Devon 1,759
Plymouth 13,389
Torbay 2,867
Cheltenham 2,933
Gloucester 11,700
Somerset 14,234
WEST MIDLANDS REGION 215,903
Bromsgrove and Redditch 3,828
Herefordshire 7,797
Kidderminster 4,283
Worcester 6,665
Shropshire 7,712
Mid Staffordshire 2,424
North Staffordshire 7,410
South East Staffordshire 28,066
Rugby 2,387
North Warwickshire 2,750
South Warwickshire 29,208
Central Birmingham 22,046
East Birmingham 1
North Birmingham 15,251
South Birmingham 1
West Birmingham 11,765
Coventry 17,714
Dudley 7,680
Sandwell 7,093
Solihull 2,857
Walsall 2,805
Wolverhampton 26,162
MERSEY REGION 74,460
Chester 1
Crewe 3,448
Halton 590
Macclesfield 5,288
Warrington 3,296
Liverpool 36,242
St. Helens and Knowsley 2,881
Southport and Formby 2,857
South Sefton 9,396
Wirral 10,462
NORTH WESTERN REGION 83,251
Lancaster 3,068

Notifications of food poisoning which were (a) formally notified, (b) ascertained by other means and (c) total by regional health authority: 1979–90
Year North West Thames North East Thames South East Thames South West Thames
1979 775 1,209 609 687
1980 743 804 622 622
1981 815 642 596 641
1982 (a) 923 912 659 660
(b) 281 435 96 606
(c) 1,204 1,347 755 1,266
1983 (a) 1,060 907 894 745
(b) 637 427 176 665
(c) 1,697 1,334 1,070 1,410
1984 (a) 1,174 1,206 1,024 620
(b) 728 783 227 689
(c) 1,902 1,989 1,251 1,309
1985 (a) 1,169 1,174 1,079 920
(b) 717 480 260 550
(c) 1,886 1,654 1,339 1,470

District health authority Cost to B2(£ thousands)
Blackpool—Wyre and Fylde 5,168
Preston 1
Blackburn, Hynburn and Ribble Valley 5,088
Burnley, Pendle and Rosendale 1
West Lancashire 8,380
Chorley and South Ribble 2,558
Bolton 1
Bury 800
North Manchester 18,804
Central Manchester 1
South Manchester 9,478
Oldham 4,542
Rochdale 8,655
Salford 3,114
Stockport 2,499
Tameside and Glossop 3,296
Trafford 3,512
Wigan 4,290
NHS National Total 84 per cent. 1,534,915
Projected Total 100 per cent. 1,832,304
1 No returns received to Cost to B.
2 To an acceptable level.

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