Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 9 March 2026.
Alison Griffiths
Conservative, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many sites were recorded in the NHS Surplus Land data collection in each year since 2020; and how many of those sites have subsequently been disposed of.
Alison Griffiths
Conservative, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many sites recorded in the NHS Surplus Land data collection since 2020 were previously used as community hospitals; and how many of those have subsequently been disposed of.
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We routinely collect National Health Service surplus land data and currently publish it on a bi-annual basis. The following table shows the NHS surplus land statistics by year, sorted by recorded surplus or potentially surplus land plots, and disposed plots, from 2020/21 to 2024/25:
Year | Recorded surplus or potentially surplus land plots | Disposed plots |
2020/21 | 610 | 82 |
2021/22 | 441 | 67 |
2022/23 | 368 | 54 |
2024/25 | 356 | 69 |
For further information on how we define our data, the specific sites and type of infrastructure, including community hospitals, that were sold during these years is available at local integrated care boards and at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-surplus-land
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