Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on determining the allocated capital to the eight hospitals in cohort three of the New Hospitals Programme; and when an announcement on the outcome of that determination will be made.

The New Hospital Programme was allocated £3.7 billion for the first four years of the programme in 2020. With any multi-year investment, further funding will be set out at future Spending Reviews. Individual funding allocations for schemes are only confirmed once the respective Full Business Cases have been reviewed and agreed, including by HM Treasury.

We are working closely with all schemes in the programme, including the cohort three schemes on progressing their new hospital aligned with the national programme approach. The national approach will enable cost and time savings and transform the way we deliver healthcare infrastructure for the National Health Service through standardised and repeatable hospital designs and modern methods of construction to ensure value for money.