Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to engage with environmental charities and industry leaders to ensure that hospitals and other NHS facilities become more sustainable.

‘Delivering a ‘Net Zero’ National Health Service’, published in October 2020, sets out that National Health Service organisations should be powered by more sustainable forms of energy. The NHS has started this transition by asking all its hospitals to switch over to 100% purchased renewable energy.

NHS England and NHS Improvement and NHS trusts engage extensively with a variety of environmental charities and environmental leaders, industry and professional bodies to deliver the interventions set out in ‘Delivering a ‘Net Zero’ National Health Service’.