§ Ms PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will show for each military hospital disposed of since 1988(a) the purchaser, (b) the new use of the site, (c) the estimated value of the site before sale and (d) the sale price.
§ Mr. HanleyOne military hospital—the former Princess of Wales RAF hospital at Ely—has been disposed of since 1988.
About half the former hospital comprising 7.26 acres of the total 63 ace site has been sold to the Cambridge health authority, now Lifespan Health Care Trust, and is currently in use as a community hospital. Approximately 23 acres have been transferred to the United States Air Force and the balance of the site, some 32 acres, is currently for sale on the open market.
Details of the site value prior to sale and the sale price are commercial in confidence.
§ Ms PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans his Department has for selling military hospitals to other health care providers.
§ Mr. HanleyMy Department is required to obtain the best possible price for all sales of surplus MOD property; in the case of military hospitals, this may be achieved by sale to another healthcare provider. Discussions are well under way on the terms of sale of Queen Elizabeth Military hospital in Woolwich to the Greenwich healthcare trust.