To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether trusts are able to rent hospital accommodation to (a) persons who are not junior doctors and (b) persons who are not health professionals. (170567)

National health service trusts may carry out property transactions that are linked to their ability to carry out their functions.

In addition, NHS trusts have income generation powers under the National Health Service Act 2006 allowing them to raise additional income by marketing any spare capacity provided it does not, to any significant extent, interfere with the performance by trusts of their functions. These powers include “supplying accommodation to any person”.