Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the capacity within the construction industry to build schemes planned under the New Hospital Programme on schedule.

Through the New Hospital Programme’s commercial strategy and Hospital 2.0 Alliance we are increasing the capacity in the construction industry to support the construction of new hospital schemes.

The programme is providing a clear and stable pipeline of construction projects, with opportunities for concurrent builds, and strengthening domestic and international appetite to engage with the programme.

The Hospital 2.0 Alliance will provide a commercial environment that protects the supply chain from adverse levels of risk, provides more consistent and predictable returns on projects, and rewards performance with profit.