Written question asked by Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 20 January 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 9 February 2004. It was answered by Lord Hutton of Furness (Labour) on Monday, 9 February 2004 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made towards the target of reducing the value of NHS building backlog maintenance by 25 per cent. by 2004. - Will write.

Answer: Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made towards the target of reducing the value of NHS building backlog maintenance by 25 per cent. by 2004. [150043] Mr. Hutton: NHS Estates collects data on backlog maintenance from national health service trusts through its Estates Return Information Collection (ERIC). The latest data relate to 2002-03 and these remain the subject of a statistical validation exercise which will be completed shortly. Once the validation exercise is complete I will write to the hon. Member.

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