HC Deb 01 May 1990 vol 171 cc523-4W
34. Mr. Brandon-Bravo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital building schemes worth over £1 million are planned or under construction.

Mr. Freeman

From information held centrally, in the National Health Service in England there are currently 527 schemes each costing over £1 million at various stages of planning, design and construction; this represents the largest sustained building programme ever. Of these schemes, 149 are currently under construction.