Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish (a) civil contingency plans and (b) fire safety strategies for NHS field hospitals.

The civil contingency plans for all National Health Service-funded organisation, including NHS field hospitals, are set out in the NHS England Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Framework. This strategic national framework containing, principles for health emergency preparedness, resilience and response for NHS England at all levels including NHS provider organisations, providers of NHS-funded care, clinical commissioning groups, general practitioners and other primary and community care organisations. The Framework is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/eprr/gf/

The fire safety strategies for NHS provider organisations, including NHS field hospitals are not published because of the potential security risk.