£53,122 spent on pest control

OVER £53,122 was spent on pest control in the Western Health and Social Care Trust (WHSCT) over the past three years.

Health Minister Michael McGimpsey advised 30,603 was spent here in 2007/8; 9,140 in 2008/9; and 13,379 last year.

He was asked to outline the how much each Health and Social Care Trust spent on pest control through an Assembly Question

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The Minister advised the figures must be seen relative to the large size of the Health Service Estate.

“There are 1,600 blocks of buildings including major hospital complexes, local hospitals, residential accommodation, day centres, health clinics and administrative buildings and a property estate of some 1.2 million hectares of land. All this has an estimated replacement value of at least 10 billion pounds,” he stated.

“There is continuing significant new investment in capital buildings with 600m of funding in the current CSR period for facilities in the acute, primary and community and mental health and learning disability sectors,” he added.