To ask the Secretary of State for Wales by what date the current maintenance backlog on national health service properties will be cleared on current and planned capital spending for the national health service in Wales.

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave on 31 October 1989 at columns 108–9.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the total cost of backlog maintenance for national health service properties in Wales, and by health authority, for the latest available year; and if he will make a statement.

District health authorities in Wales are required to review the cost of backlog maintenance annually and for 1989–90, they estimated that it would cost £163·4 million to bring the whole of the NHS estate in Wales to a standard where it is exhibiting only minor deterioration. This sum may be broken down by district health authority as follows: