Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the value is of NHS contracts with Carillion in (a) West Midlands and (b) Coventry.

Carillion is part of a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) consortium currently contracted by Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust to undertake the £342 million building project for the new acute hospital on the Queen Elizabeth site in Birmingham and community facilities. NHS Improvement and the Department are working closely with Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and their private sector partners to minimise the impact of the Carillion liquidation and any resulting delay to completion.

There are processes in place in the event of the administration or liquidation of a contractor part way through a build and the PFI companies and their lenders are now in active engagement. There is planning in place to ensure the delay is as minimal as possible.

In addition to the NHS Trust, Carillion provide maintenance services to three NHS LIFT Companies in the region (LIFT Birmingham and Solihull; LIFT Sandwell; and LIFT Dudley) which provide a total of 20 primary care centres and facilities. The NHS LIFT Companies have their own contingency plans in place to source these maintenance services from other companies.