Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for (a) work resuming on the new Royal Liverpool Hospital and (b) the hospital opening.

Officials from the Department of Health and Social Care are working closely on this matter with those from Her Majesty’s Treasury and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority and of course with relevant senior staff of the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust to ensure that the hospital can be completed as quickly as is possible.

I visited the site of the new hospital on 18 May to meet with the senior leadership of the Trust to discuss progressing the hospital build.