Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to allocate capital funding to improve stroke care infrastructure in Greater Manchester.

The Government is committed to shifting the focus of the National Health Service out of hospitals and into the community through our 10-Year Health Plan, and we recognise that delivering high-quality NHS healthcare services requires the right infrastructure in the right places.

The Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) has been provisionally allocated £5.6 million from our Primary Care Utilisation fund for 2025/26 to upgrade existing buildings and space, boosting productivity, and enabling practices to deliver more patient appointments.

In addition, the Greater Manchester ICB has been provisionally allocated £30.3 million from our Constitutional Standards Recovery fund to deliver new surgical hubs, diagnostic scanners, and beds to increase capacity for elective and emergency care.

In addition to national programme allocations, the Greater Manchester ICB has been provisionally allocated £194.5 million of operational capital funding, including primary care business as usual capital, which can be used to improve stroke care infrastructure, where this is a local priority.