Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) build new and (b) improve existing hospitals in Yorkshire.

The Government has committed to build 40 new hospitals by 2030. In Yorkshire, we are working with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the development of its scheme. The new hospital for Leeds will enhance treatment and care and replace outdated infrastructure with innovative facilities and technology. We have received 128 expressions of interest for the next cohort of eight new hospitals which are currently being assessed.

Trusts in Yorkshire have benefitted from programmes such as the Targeted Investment Fund for estates and digital initiatives, the Critical Infrastructure Risk Fund to eradicate backlog maintenance, upgrades to accident and emergency departments and hospitals.