PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS Trusts: Subsidiary Companies (22 October 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the periodic review of NHS Property Services Limited will include analysis of the recent increase in NHS Trusts forming Wholly Owned Subsidiaries to manage their estates and property.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

The scope of the review of NHS Property Services Limited is an update of the strategic context and justification for the company delivery model; a review of the Company’s operational and financial performance; and both with reference to changes to the role and function of the Department since the formation of the company in 2013.

National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts occupy about a third of NHS Property Services’ estate as tenants. The Company provides facilities management and other estates services to these properties; the trusts provide elements of these services to NHS Property Services themselves in many cases and these may be delivered through Wholly Owned Subsidiary Companies in areas where these have been established. It is for individual NHS trusts to decide on the best contracting model for the delivery of these services.

Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
28 October 2019