Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse has been of (a) establishing the NHS Nightingale hospital in Yorkshire, (b) operating the site from its establishment through to 15 January 2021 and (c) per patient treatment by that hospital as of 15 January 2021.

Estimates previously provided by NHS England and NHS Improvement to the Department indicated that the set-up cost for the Nightingale hospital in Harrogate would be £27.314 million. Accurate estimates for per-site running costs, per patient treatment and stand-by costs are not yet available. NHS England and NHS Improvement are in the process of reviewing all spending incurred for each individual site.