Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Edward Argar and Karl McCartney

Tuesday 23rd February 2021 Commons Chamber

[Edward Argar]

How could I have failed to remember to group my hon. Friend’s question? I apologise to him. He is right to pay tribute to his local hospital in Harrogate. Zero carbon and environmental sustainability are key design criteria in our 40 hospitals programme, but it is also right, as he says, for that to flow throughout the NHS estate. The NHS’s net zero report provides a detailed plan for decarbonising the whole NHS estate and services. In that context, there is already a range of action under way, including the £50 million NHS energy efficiency fund, which, as a small example, is upgrading lighting across all NHS buildings, big and small, to improve environmental sustainability.

[Karl MᶜCartney (Lincoln) (Con)]

What steps his Department is taking to support the health and social care workforce during the covid-19 outbreak.