Hospitals: Construction

(asked on 17th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Health Infrastructure Plan 3 consultation will begin; and what criteria his Department will use to assess funding applications.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 23rd November 2020

Details regarding the consultation and criteria for major capital investments after 2030 under the rolling Health Infrastructure Plan have not been finalised.

The Government recently confirmed 40 hospitals will be built by 2030, with funding of £3.7 billion confirmed over the next four years. An open competition will be run to identify eight further new schemes, delivering on the Government’s manifesto commitment. The bid process for the remaining eight hospitals is currently being designed, but as these schemes will be delivered in the second half of the decade, we will shape the competition process and announce it in due course.

We will continue to closely work with trusts and regions to ensure when any future process does take place, the criteria for selection best meets the needs of the National Health Service.

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