asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the total financial gains which have been made by the National Health Service resulting from the sale of surplus hospital land in each year since 1979 and the organisations which made purchases.

The information in respect of the National Health Service in England is as follows:

Year ending 31 March	£million
1979	7·5
1980	9·9
1981	15·2
1982	19·4
1983	18·0
1984	31·5

Figures for the year ending 31 March 1985 are not yet available. Information about the organisations which made the purchases is not held centrally and could not be obtained without disproportionate expenditure.