§ Mr. Nigel EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if she will list all those hospitals in England and Wales which have had more than £1 million spent on them since 1979, with the relevant figure;
(2) if she will list all the hospital building programmes currently under way in England.
(3) if she will list (a) all the new hospitals opened in England since 1979 and (b) the new hospitals planned to be completed by 2000.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe Government attach the highest priority to improving and modernising the national health service estate, on which around £1.5 billion will be spent in the current year. Data are not held centrally for expenditure on individual hospitals, but information on NHS construction schemes in England costing over £1 million completed since 1979 is shown in the table which I have placed in the Library. The information is incomplete for schemes started prior to 1986, but the number of schemes recorded totals 666, with expenditure on construction cost totalling over £2.8 billion. I have also placed in the Library a table listing the 111 schemes costing over £1 million currently under construction. In total, some 400 schemes each costing more than £1 million are at various stages of planning, design and construction throughout the NHS in England.
Information relating to Wales is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.