PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS Trusts: Subsidiary Companies (30 September 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the periodic review of NHS Property Services Limited referred to by Sir Chris Wormald in oral evidence to the Public Accounts Committee on 9 September 2020 will include an assessment of the effect of the recent trend by NHS trusts to set up wholly owned subsidiary companies to manage their estates and property.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

Sir Chris Wormald gave his oral evidence to the Public Accounts Committee on their hearing into NHS Property Services Ltd (NHSPS) on 9 September 2019 following the publication of an NAO report into NHSPS in June 2019.

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.

The review has been completed and the findings were published on 24 September 2020 and is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/results-of-department-of-health-and-social-cares-review-of-nhs-property-services.

Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
8 October 2020