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Dept of Health

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Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the risk-adjusted backlog maintenance cost for the NHS in (a) England and (b) each strategic health authority in each year since 1997. [205023] Mr. Hutton: Estimates can be provided from 1999-2000 onwards and this information is shown in the table. Insufficient data exists centrally to make estimates prior to that date. The estimates are based on the average age of national health service trust buildings. From 2004-05, the method of calculating backlog costs by trusts will be based on specific data concerning the remaining lives of individual NHS buildings, initially provided by the Valuation Office, and will deliver greater accuracy as a result. £000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Strategic health authority 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 name Avon, Gloucestershire and 24,597 35,245 32,836 24,767 19,584 Wiltshire Bedfordshire and 15,902 23,101 20,009 22,835 18,970 Hertfordshire Birmingham and the Black 51,354 47,284 34,931 41,926 42,271 Country Cheshire and Merseyside 22,286 26,928 22,575 24,454 14,455 County Durham and Tees 11,878 13,444 8,772 6,233 4,741 Valley Cumbria and Lancashire 27,892 28,308 23,466 21,002 17,427 Dorset and Somerset 5,730 9,976 7,631 5,899 1,885 Essex 13,917 11,077 17,686 12,302 11,228 Greater Manchester 46,963 44,975 32,211 27,943 26,307 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 24,066 20,767 12,802 11,701 10,985 Kent and Medway 26,019 15,556 7,601 27,659 25,131 Leicestershire, 32,885 22,250 41,966 27,431 26,522 Northamptonshire and Rutland Norfolk, Suffolk and 25,492 19,525 10,816 19,540 9,622 Cambridgeshire North and East Yorkshire 14,760 14,364 13,792 13,502. 9,656 and Northern Lincolnshire North Central London 39,407 44,131 41,341 64,447 61,168 North East London 59,623 52,595 54,289 44,384 42,359 North West London 49,089 32,347 43,185 31,638 46,350 Northumberland, Tyne and 31,232 33,133 18,551 12,046 10,360 Wear Shropshire and 18,1,26 26,678 34,869 34,628 32,221 Staffordshire South East London 68,161 66,427 55,006 36,417 31,759 South West London 25,971 24,892 17,283 35,193 35,350 South West Peninsula 13,830 13,101 9,271 6,852 4,424 South Yorkshire 16,854 15,947 14,781 20,492 9,063 Surrey and Sussex 35,810 28,807 45,434 23,583 25,907 Thames Valley 47,380 26,438 30,906 32,858 24,606 Trent 45,589 57,940 52,088 36,539 37,152 West Midlands South 20,321 14,591 12,239 10,800 9,954 West Yorkshire 42,484 43,043 31,061 33,731 27,595 England total 857,615 812,871 747,398 710,801 637,053 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

205023; 428 c1663-6W;428 c1661-4W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Costs Buildings Administrative delays Hospitals NHS NHS trusts Repairs and maintenance

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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