NHS: Repairs and Maintenance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the size of the maintenance backlog in the NHS at the end of the 10 Year Health Plan.
Answered by Karin Smyth
Alongside the 10-Year Health Plan detailing our ambition to deliver a National Health Service fit for the future, the Government recently published a 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy setting out 10-year maintenance budgets for the public estate, with £6 billion per year for maintenance and repair of the NHS estate up to 2034-35.
Investment will be targeted to address critical infrastructure risk and eradicate reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), starting to reverse the underinvestment of the previous 15 years.
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