Hospital Building Programme

HC Deb 01 May 2003 vol 404 c511W

Mr. Soames

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the amount of expenditure on the hospital building programme in each of the last five available years, excluding PFI contracts. [110796]

Mr. Hutton

The Department does not separately identify expenditure on the hospital building programme. The Department does collect information on total capital expenditure in the National Health Service. This is shown in the table below.

Financial Year	Total (£000)
1997–1998	1,153,298
1998–1999	1,114,241
1999–2000	1,635,032
2000–2001	1,744,304
2001–2002	1,969,080
Total:	7,615,955

Source:

NHS Trust summarisation schedules 1997–98 to 2001–02—net book value of additional purchased capital acquisitions by NHS Trusts.