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1130112

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date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress NHS Property Services has made in resolving complex billing disputes as a result of the move to market rents.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	260676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The market rent increases on NHS Property Services’ buildings have been permanently funded through clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations, which are expected to be partners in integrated care systems.</p><p>CCG are expected to distribute the additional market rent funding to occupiers of NHS Property Services properties through, for example, health services contracts or rent reimbursement, where applicable. Where there are funding disputes there are matters for local commissioners and providers to agree.</p><p>Where there are billing disputes, NHS Property Services works with occupiers and commissioners as necessary to ensure the basis of charging is accurate and is fully understood and agreed by each party.</p><p>The most complex disputes involving National Health Service occupiers are reviewed by the Department and if necessary escalated to an independent arbitration panel to determine.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 260675 question first answered 12/06/2019 13:33:58 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1130111

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Integrated Care Systems
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate funds to integrated care systems for increases in market rent.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	260675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The market rent increases on NHS Property Services’ buildings have been permanently funded through clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations, which are expected to be partners in integrated care systems.</p><p>CCG are expected to distribute the additional market rent funding to occupiers of NHS Property Services properties through, for example, health services contracts or rent reimbursement, where applicable. Where there are funding disputes there are matters for local commissioners and providers to agree.</p><p>Where there are billing disputes, NHS Property Services works with occupiers and commissioners as necessary to ensure the basis of charging is accurate and is fully understood and agreed by each party.</p><p>The most complex disputes involving National Health Service occupiers are reviewed by the Department and if necessary escalated to an independent arbitration panel to determine.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 260676 question first answered 12/06/2019 13:33:58 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1130110

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Hospitals: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of continuing controls on capital spending by his Department on maintenance in hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	260674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>National Health Service provider organisations invest in excess of £3 billion of capital annually and are responsible for keeping their estate and infrastructure safe, by prioritising their available capital and revenue budgets accordingly. The Department is working with NHS England and NHS Improvement so that Trusts have the ability to spend to keep their estate safe.</p><p>Data from the annual Estates Return Information Collection (ERIC) suggests level of backlog in the NHS estate has increased across recent years. To support providers maintain existing estates and invest in new facilities, the Government announced £3.9 billion of additional capital funding in the 2017 Spring and Autumn Budgets, and the Government has been clear that it will consider proposals from the NHS to support transformation of the estate as part of the forthcoming Spending Review.</p><p>Both NHS trusts and foundation trusts receive income on the same basis, and where additional capital investment funding is provided centrally there are no differences between access to, or assessment processes, for NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts. Although NHS trusts are subject to some additional layers of governance in respect of capital investment when compared to NHS foundation trusts, these are not intended to impose limitations on their capital spending, rather to provide the balance between trusts’ freedom to manage their own capital investments with an assurance process for the approval of capital investment plans in the context of the wider financial sustainability of the bodies.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 260673 question first answered 12/06/2019 13:09:27 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1130104

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS Trusts: Capital Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether an assessment has been made of the effect on NHS trusts of their limitations on capital spending compared with the different limitations on NHS foundation trusts.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	260673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>National Health Service provider organisations invest in excess of £3 billion of capital annually and are responsible for keeping their estate and infrastructure safe, by prioritising their available capital and revenue budgets accordingly. The Department is working with NHS England and NHS Improvement so that Trusts have the ability to spend to keep their estate safe.</p><p>Data from the annual Estates Return Information Collection (ERIC) suggests level of backlog in the NHS estate has increased across recent years. To support providers maintain existing estates and invest in new facilities, the Government announced £3.9 billion of additional capital funding in the 2017 Spring and Autumn Budgets, and the Government has been clear that it will consider proposals from the NHS to support transformation of the estate as part of the forthcoming Spending Review.</p><p>Both NHS trusts and foundation trusts receive income on the same basis, and where additional capital investment funding is provided centrally there are no differences between access to, or assessment processes, for NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts. Although NHS trusts are subject to some additional layers of governance in respect of capital investment when compared to NHS foundation trusts, these are not intended to impose limitations on their capital spending, rather to provide the balance between trusts’ freedom to manage their own capital investments with an assurance process for the approval of capital investment plans in the context of the wider financial sustainability of the bodies.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 260674 question first answered 12/06/2019 13:09:27 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth