§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the office blocks and other accommodation vacated as a result of reorganisation within the national 309W health service, including the movement of the national health service executive to Leeds and internal changes within the regions; and which buildings are currently unoccupied.
§ Mr. SackvillePrior to their move to Leeds, the national health service management executive staff occupied parts of 10 buildings in London. These were State house, Portland court, Richmond house, Russell square, Eileen house, Friars house, Market towers, Euston towers, Milbank tower and Hannibal house. Of those, two have been disposed of and seven remain occupied by Government Departments. Hannibal house is currently empty but is to be partly reoccupied by the Department of Health to allow another building to be disposed of. The move of the NHS management executive to Leeds is saving some £10 million a year on the cost of office space in London and on higher London salaries.
Information is not available centrally in the form requested on accommodation changes in the NHS more widely. These are a matter for the health authority or NHS trust concerned.